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  2. RECORDS OF ROGUERY.

    In December last, a bank note for £1,000 was presented for payment at the Bank of England. The clerk looked at the list of " stopped notes," and finding that this was not amongst them, gave the applicant ...

    Article : 146 words
  3. LATEST FROM ITALY.

    As everything connected with Italy and the movements of the deposed Pope possesses more than ordinary interest at the present time, we have gleaned the following particulars from our last files:— ...

    Article : 2,722 words
  4. SPECIAL SURVEYS.

    Gentlemen— If I were to tell you that two and two make four, you would rightfully think any conversation silly and impertinent; but 1 am about to state some facts quite as self-evident, without one word of apology, and ...

    Article : 578 words
  5. FRAUD AND FORGERY.

    The Times says—A correspondent has transmitted to us a document, purporting to be "An Appeal of the unemployed Tradesmen of Bradford and its precincts, now emigrating to Australia," and ...

    Article : 93 words
  6. THE PORT AND THE POST-OFFICE.

    Gentlemen—Allow me through the medium of your valuable journal, to call the attention of the authorities to a great want of accommodation on the part of the Post-office. ...

    Article : 210 words
  7. A SUPERSTITIOUS DUPE.

    At the Longford sessions, a fellow was sentenced to seven years' transportation for swindling a respectable but most simple widow of money, under pretence that he was her dead husband, and was ...

    Article : 60 words
  8. WHOLESALE SWINDLING AT DEAL.

    A young man, passing by the name of R. W. Butler, took a shop in Beach-street, Deal, some time since, upon the pretence of doing business in the hardware line. In the course of a few days goods ...

    Article : 157 words
  9. THE BITER BIT.—APPREHENSION OF A DEFAULTER.

    Our readers are aware of the flight of a Thomas Curtis, collector of poor-rates, at Salford, Manchester, with money collected to the amount of some two or three thousand pounds. He directed ...

    Article : 258 words
  10. CHEAP CELLAR PUMP.

    Gentlemen—Many of the collars in Adelaide having been partially inundated by the flowing in or percolation of the late rains, I take the liberty of suggesting a cheap pump, long used in England for temporary purposes. ...

    Article : 249 words
  11. A PARISH DEFAULTER.

    Mr Thomas Woodward, of the Wandsworth-road, many years a collector of the poor rate for a large district of the parish of Lambeth, has absconded since September last, carrying with him a considerable ...

    Article : 125 words
  12. COPPER ASSAYING.

    Gentlemen—My attention has been drawn from time to time, in consequence of conversations with interested parties, relative to the method, or rather the result of copper assaying in the colony ; great and most unaccountable ...

    Article : 279 words
  13. THE BEGGING "PROFESSION."

    At a recent meeting of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, the Rev. Mr Branch said that a short time since he visited a room in Westminster, where he saw a woman with a dying child in her arms. ...

    Article : 259 words
  14. CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.

    For some time pasta few individuals have visited various parts of the city and county, soliciting subscriptions in aid of a body which they entitled " The Edinburgh Operatives' Emigration Society." ...

    Article : 285 words
  15. THE RAINY SEASON.

    Gentlemen—Now that "the summer is over and ended," we record the setting in of rain, which, however favourable for agriculture, is not quite so well relished by our citizens and traders, whose business, by the ...

    Article : 364 words
  16. AN OLD TRICK REVIVED.

    Lately, a man entered a shop at Heavitree, Devonshire, kept by an old woman, and demanded a pennyworth of treacle. This being given, he asked for a sheet of the stiffest paper she had in the shop, and whilst ...

    Article : 82 words
  17. CONVICTION OF ONE OF THE ADVERTISING GENTRY.

    John Bull, aged 29, described as an agent, was tried at the Central Criminal Court, charged with obtaining a bill of exchange for £200 from John Alexander, by false pretences. It appeared from ...

    Article : 298 words
  18. SPURIOUS GUANO.

    A report of a case tried in the Manchester County Court brings to light a fraud of most flagrant character. It appears that a so-called guano, composed of "the refuse of starch works," of "spent wood ...

    Article : 303 words
  19. ARCHITECTURE—EGYPTIAN STYLE.

    Gentlemen—As all good colonists must desire to identify themselves with the people among whom they reside, whilst they do the duties as well as realise the hospitalities, the utilities, and blessings of an advancing ...

    Article : 372 words
  20. AN OLD TALE REVIVED.

    An elderly person, "in a sort of half clerical garb," has been attempting to impose on the people of Brechin. He pretended that he was Marquis of Bredalbane, and that he had made a wager ...

    Article : 148 words
  21. FEIGNED DEATH.

    The juice of various plants, as, for instance, the clematis of thus radicans, causes, as well known, pretty sharp inflammation of the skin ; and impostors, who speculate upon public charity, have often ...

    Article : 68 words
  22. A NEW TRICK.

    It appears that some people are going about plundering the provincial magistracy and police authorities, by representing themselves to be police officers in pursuit of a Chartist delinquent, or a ...

    Article : 131 words
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