HARD ON THE BANKER.
A Wellington correspondent furnishes the “ Wanganui Chronicle ” with the following interesting tit-bit, which we are assured is genuine in every particular : “ A few days ago the manager of one of the Wellington banks was requested by His Excellency to call on him re Government matters, and forthwith proceeded to the Government House. The banker in question, being no small beer in his own estimation, stood not upon formalities, but, having delivered his card, walked in without being announced. His Excellency at the moment was busily writing in his study, and as he paid not the slightest attention to the visitor, the banker coughed several times. At last His Excellency looked up, and sternly surveying the -intruder, asked, ‘ Why were you not introduced ?’ ‘ Oh,’ said the banker, ‘ I gave ray card.’ 1 But you were not introduced,’ retorted His Excellency. The banker wiped his spectacles, and in a vexed tone rejoined ‘For the future, your Excellency, any banking business had better be conducted at the bank.’ His Excellency did not care to continue the dialogue, and the interview is said to have terminated somewhat abruptly.”
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1002, 1 July 1881, Page 3
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