At a committee meeting of the "Wesleyan Bazaar, held last evening, the total receipts at the Bazaar were shown to be £121 9s 3d ; expenses, £34 4s 3d. Leaving a net balance of £87 ss. Although the old adage — "murder will out" — has proved curiously correct in many instances, we doubt, among them all, that it is possible to find a more curious instance than the following case of stolen goods finding their lawful owner, for the authenticity of which we can vouch, and whi h happened in Nelson. Four teen years ago a lady was presented by another lady with a brooch of curious workmanship, which had been made in India; but to her great annoyance, it was stolen from her a few hours after she had received it. Suspicions were entertained against a servant in the house, but, as there was no positive proof, the brooch was given up for lost, and forgotten from that day to this. The donor of the brooch has been lately staying at a friend's in the country. The gentleman of the house, who is fond of doing little mechanical jobs in his leisure time, received the other day a package containing some brooches and other trifles to be mended. Among the brooches the visitor recognised at once one which had been in her posession years ago, and about which there could be no mistake because of its Indian workman ship, as it had been made in India and after her own design. She went and showed it to the lady to whom she had given it, who immediately recognised it as the brooch she had received. She s ;ated how it had been stolen by the ser vant, who left her place shortly after wards and married and settled down not far from where she had been at service. It seems she had sent it to be mended, not dreaming that any one would recognise it after such a lapse of time.
