Something to his Advantage.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 211, 25 November 1873, Page 7

Something to his Advantage.

"SnjTler," in the Auckland Weekly Herald, \ writes :—I am gathering together all sorts of funny, facts in connection with people being made a convenience' of.. Some time back, in this go-ahead city of Auckland, a man rail into debt with a storekeeper, and having done this much he ran away. The tradesman, after a time, wrote " bolted" on the credit side of the ledger against the man's; name, went home to supper, and didn't think anything more of so common an event. About two years after he hears by chance that the man is living in Australia, that lie had had a large property left to him, and was j keeping a lady and a buggy. Now, as a summons from Queen-street, won't operate in Bourke-street, Melbourne; the storekeeper hit upon an invention so ingenious that many a man-has received a pentf sion for one not half r.o good. He sent an' advertisement to a Melbourne paper that if i J.T.S.M., late of Auckland, would come over 1 he would hear of something greatly to his advantage by applying to A. and 8., solicitors, prothonotaries, &c. And J.T.S.M., under the impression that he was cominp- in for a second landed property, did come over by the next steamer, and lie was served with a summons for the storekeeper's debt.. I think this is making a convenience of a man, and I don't think that man liked it a little bit. i