AN UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1691, 19 October 1887, Page 3

AN UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCE.

Mr P. L. Dignan, formerly manager of ike Bank of New Zealand here (cays the " West Coast Times "), seems to have had rather an unpleasant experience whilst travelling on the continent of Europe. It is said that, -whilst on his way from Frankfort to Vienna, he had as a companion an interesting widow, w ho contrived to make the time slip away very pleasantly. Her faculty m tLis direction, indeed, seems to have been very great ; for on coming to a halting place Mr Dignan discovered not oDly that the fair stranger herself had slipped away, but that his pocket book had, m some incomprehensible fashion, imitated her example. By this unaccountable proceeding on the part of a hitherto faithful friend he lost £50 m cash, a letter of credit, and several letters of introduction. The pocket book did not again make its appearance ; and on telegraphing' to stop any further drawings on th« latUr of oredit fre discovered that someone— a friend of the widow's pre sumably— had already obtained £400 on it. This sum, however, will, it ie understood, stand as a loss of the banker's, and not of Mr Digna&'s.