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MISCELLANEOUS.

The Sydney "Town and Country " thus discourses of Corfitz Cronquist, who will be remembered in this colony as a phrenologist — in Dunedin acting for a while as reader on the long defunct Sun newspaper — who has hacl the honor of making enforced sojourns, for periods of longer or shorter duration, in almost every gaol in the colony, and who previously had put up in Pentridge and Sydney gaols :—": — " The man named Crofitz Cronquist, sentonced on Wednesday to three years' imprisonment for stealing a draft, is a perfect hero of the criminal kind. By no means deficient in ability, and gifted with persuasive powers and a facility of speech of more than a common order, he seems possessed > by a mania for thieving and defrauding." His chief fkrk, ing is a prediction for looting hotels ; his * "ode of procedure being to ingratiate himself into L j favor

of eWythiofbf value. ' aithofigß at tyneraKOtr m the act or convicted ftflarwftnfe, fee siidwedcd frequently in escaping even suspicion,, untiF after convictions for the same offence- revealed thA' fact that he was the delinquent. Besides the sentences, recorded against him in the history furnished t& the judge on Tuesday, which details a number of convictions, Cronquist was tried under Lynch law at Levuka, Fiji, and is known tcr have committed a number of robberies which cottld not satisfactory be brought home to him. ifejast .conviqrfbn pro- / vious to that of WednesdayjSwfes &r redlasentmg himself as agent and correspondent of the jjf* SyC ley Morning Herald," and that he had previcfeisly on t|e staffs of the " Sydney Mail " and the and Country Journal." "We need hardly say that this story had no foundation whatever. Cronquist is a Swede by birth, and a compositor by trade. He has written several readable tales and sketches of adventures." Cronquist left his situation on'the ".Suji " under a circumstance that is yet well relneiSbered. In a speech by Sir Francis Dillon fyeih SiV Francis was represented in that paper as desotibingShe state of the matter on which he^was dilating aV^eing "like Mahomet's stocking,fcuspended betweii earth and heaven." This ludicrous blunder "was copied into nearly every newspaper, with sundry smcy comments, and provided n^uch mirth, uoif^Hf^t the expense of the " San " b&t of Sir Francis^Oronquist maintained that he had corrected theVrooT, but that the correction had not been attendedto. He left the office, but not t|l he had indulged his mania for petty larceny,' stefling even the suppers of his fellow employees. A spinner at Salford named Peter Kostron hasbeen fined no less than 21s and costs for simply pitching a baby, cradle and all, out of his house intothe street. It seems that Rostron, who was charged with being drunk and disorderly, was dreadfully annoyed because Sarah Molloy, who presides over his establishment and is the mother ©f his infant, had left the child in his charge while she was paying a visit to Atfi^ghbour next door. He did not,, as so 1^ i k Ji3iT^jnVht have done, chuck the baby into Wo -tifcet tfh^ + - a word, but, with singular good feelin^eapeV for a drunken man, went to the door ef theEoTwa . wher Molloy was loitering, and shouti^. a warning to iicj. ihat if she did not come child he would throw it into the street. As^m&jMolloy paid no attention to this kindly siimmaps, Kostron had no alternative but to carry his thiteat into execution. He accordingly returned to his own house, and a minute later out flew the baby in its cradle across the footpath iato the road. This solemn appeal to Sarah Molty's feelings as a mother atgpuce recalled her to a sense of her duty. With true* maternal instinct, she at once picked up the child and sent far a doctor. She might have* spared herdelf J/he trouble and expense, for the.^aby was nqt in any way injured. The only person who has sustained dky injury is poor Rostron, who has- been mulcted in a heavy penalty, besidejfebemg hurt in. lua.f^mgs. lathers and mothers wilt S^ well, fiowfeviay to remember that when they ast Sa»J>attledorea tfps ekould not use a baby as sKtrttlectf*.— " Fall MWI Gaaette." The " Forbes Timel?** relates that tfce following happened not a^W^ojkand miles from, the Eorbe* Covirt-hcmse. TvPe^TuWces were on the Bench, and as a red-nosed feminißß*.J>eaiitT mounted the wit-ness-box to give evidence, the> senior Magistrate looked at her and— sniffed TuSnng t©« his judiciaL brother, he observed,, " Bont you perceive an odour of alcohol being wafted from the direction of the* witness V " I do," replied his brother, " perceive a very perceptible odour-" Whereupon the senior J.P., calling to an officer ofohe Court, said, "Constable, smell the witngsaJ' Nothing lacking in ther required obedient tSSteSuttaisJe vent and stood .dufecfly" under tko witnefibox, and lifting up his hirsute Tisage to its oecupant r said, " Brathe on menow." With a cfcamiing readinesa to oblige, the* frail creature. k*ftecfcjfull m the face of the officer,, and ejaculated a vejf^udible ppew.b — ew. " A&&" said the constable, and again was the farce repeated. " Well/ r said the Bench to the man in blue, " do* you observe ailyt^iiig ?" I'aith, thin, your worship* I can discern jis^ihetint of port wine On her," and. the case was proceeded with* An Auckland correspondent of the? Auatralische' Zeitung, a German paper published in Adelaide,, writes as follows :—": — " In order to excbsaage the subject of politics for something- more pSeesiag^ I will ask you the question : Have you,, mi Saotfii Australia, such institution as barmaidsv aamtt tfoes it nourish] Have tftjse interesting tidies jfoffirfent importance to induce ' the Legislafture to ptssi laws specially on their behalf ? Here they do- enfor^ tlttife importance, and a Bill introduced £n\ th« Jjyver House by ex-Premier Fox, and passed by tier Legislature, provides that barmaids ghalt not be permitted to serve after eleven o'clock in the evening. According to this Act wives and dau-ghters-of landlords may serve till midnight, butt nieces, mothers-in-law, 'and other female relativeskre prohibited. Strange to say, these barmaids f^el that this Act interferes with their best hours; as they argue that the i^me ifrom eleven to twelve is the most pleasant,, Beveral publicans have been brought to Court for breacheyo'fc this Act, but escaped without a fine, as it vr/ts found that it contained — like many another— *a back door by which they could make a convenient escape. In honor of Mr Fox, the teetotaller, the barmaids have nsw invented a new drink, which ' they call " Fox's mixture," and which is only sold ''bet ween the hours of eleven and. twelve p.m. A bottle of it, carefully wrapped in a nightcap, has been sent to Mr Fox, accompanied by a polite request not to interfem with barmaids in. the future." '[ ' r The analogy between rum and religion has been, discussed, but has never been practically determined^ and now in England comes up tb£ recondite relation of tithes and beer. The " Manchester Examiner " informs us that^it is the recognized custom in: North Wales for the rector's agent to give the farmers and other tithe-payers, when they settle their dues, tickets for beer, which are convertible into malt liquor at any inn in the neighborhood. The tract it appears, is governed by the amount of the tithe paid. In a certain parish a crown gets a halfpint ticket; ten shillings a pint but then ,£lO or £15 entitles the payer -to no more three quarts at the rector's expense. The holder .however, isn't allowed to drink 4iis Whole allowance at once, for the publican will ope'ii account with him and permit him to swig out the rector's by instalments. It is an undei stood thing we suppose, that the beer should, be stout and good, for the honor of the Church, which should be called St. Andrew's, and have XXX for its mysterical symbol.

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Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 444, 23 March 1875, Page 2

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MISCELLANEOUS. Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 444, 23 March 1875, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS. Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 444, 23 March 1875, Page 2

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