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Evening Star, Issue 3047, 23 November 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)

Hoaestv and its Reward.—A lad named David Mackay, in the employment of Messrs Stewart and Burrows, butch its. Ahanra, picked up a bundle of papers on Tuesday, between the fifth and sixth telegraph posts from Pothau’s Hotel, on the track from Ahanra to Totara Flat, (hi examination, the parcel contained, among other valuable documents, a bank depositreceipt for L 485. The property was given in charge to the police. A miner named Frank Gonedick, a Frenchman, from No-Town, subsequently claimed the property, and at the same time reported tho loss of LIG in cash, and a'so a horse. The man said he was on his way home to No-Town after visiting Reeftou, and he stayed at a public-house near Ahanra on Sunday night. He turned his horse out in the paddock attached to the premises. He missed his money in the morning, and he also found that his horse had broken away from the paddock. It was while looking for his horse he lost the deposit receipt, &c. A singular circumstance occurred in connection with the search for the man’s missing papers. A friend of Gonedick’s was assisting in tho search, when he picked up a cheque for a considerable amount, which had been paid to Mr Janies Kittelty, and which was lost a fortnight ago. It may be remarked that, in Gonedick’s case, the boy Mackay lias been rewarded for his honesty by the large-hearted and generous owner of so much money by being presented with exactly nothing. This is very different liberality from that of a rather good-looking y„uug lady who dashed through the town on horseback the other day on her way from Reeftou to Greymonth. During her rapid transit she dropped her portmonnaie, which was picked up and found to be well filled with “bine-backs.” On reaching Gough’s punt she discovered her loss, and returned to Ahanra, when her purse, with tho eontents intact, was restored to her. The happy tinder in this instance refused the proffered pecuniary recompense, but he was amply rewarded with the bestowal of a sweet and “ bright smile ” which “ haunts him still.”—lUcci'Aiyat, November