true story the reader must judge. A certain lady of titular distinction having occupied the attendant of a "Registry Office" on three separate occasions in reference to a servant not easy to procure, and desiring that her requirements might be advertised and all other necessary steps taken to supply her want, subsequently demanded the registration fee of one shilling (including advertisement) to be returned to her, she having succeeded by some means - perhaps by the active enquiries of the registry-office attendant - in getting a servant. The refunding of the shilling being refused on the ground of its value in time and labour having been already given to the object, and on the promise of further exertions should the newly engaged servant not suit, or should any other servant at any time be required, the indignant lady liberally promised to do the said registry office all the harm she could "among her very large circle of friends" - Cui Malo[a].
The Biter Bit. - That "Honesty is the best policy" may be shewn in a variety of ways, and although the action described in what follows may be regarded as the negative of the cases previously cited, it is nevertheless adduced as another proof of the proverb. At a spot not a hundred yards from St. Leonards, there was living a certain personage more noted for the love of good things than for his disposition or his ability to pay for them. Having a fancy for choice wines, the subject of this notice entered a wine store, and after tasting some samples proceeded to a branch of the same establishment and ordered half-a-dozen of the very best Burgundy.
The wine-merchant's assistant not knowing the character of his customer, sent the wine as ordered, but in communicating the transaction to the principal, the latter adopted the expedient of sending to the purchaser's residence a similar quantity of "first class" (colored(sic)) water, with a respectful apology for having "by error" sent in the first instance a "third class" article. So tempting a bait could not, of course be resisted, and the customer very readily assented to the exchange, to the delight of the merchant, but as it afterwards turned out, to the mortification of the would-be purchaser.
Building Operations
The enlargement of the Wesleyan Chapel and the great improvement at the South Colonnade have already been described, and it is here added that visitors to beautiful St. Leonards were known to have expressed astonishment at the magnitude and number of mansions that were in progress of erection in Warrior square, on the Marina, at Upper Maze Hill and other localities. It was gratifying to learn that the houses were sold or let as fast as they could be completed and they were likely to produce a fair return for the large amount of capital which was expended on them. The writer was led into these remarks by an interesting event which took place on the 7th of -
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