MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 524, 22 September 1902, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

WILES OF A WIDOW. Buenos Ayres, Aug. I On June 28 a poor widow told the priest of a church in the south of this city that she had been robbed of a 'purse of £2O while at- the service. The Priest, greatly shocked, announced the theft, next day from the pulpit-, and he promised absolution if the money were returned.

After service a ihicklv-vetlcd woman came to the priest, in the vestrv, and confessed with iears that, she was the penitent thief. She returned tlie purse and was duly absolved. The widow was overjoyed at the recovery. She hurst, into tears, and taking the £2n note from the purse, she asked the priest wiiether lie would accept £2 for candies for the saints’ altar as a titanic-offering. This was of course gladly accepted, and the priest gave the poor lone widow £lh change tor her bank-note. She hurried awav, profuse in her thanks. Next day. when the priest went to change the note, he found that it was a forgery !

BIRD CHARMING IN PARIS. Paris, August 1. It is announced that, during the summer a competition will he organised in Paris among the bird charmers. In all the public gardens of the capital there are those who come every day to feed the sparrows with crumbs of bread, and some of them know their feathered friends so well that they have given them names, to which thev respond.

A DEATH MYSTERY. Copenhagen, August 8. In a forest at Honefus, in South Sweden, the dead bodies of ~.n English man and woman have been found. A revolver lay beside them and a letter in English, begging that thev might be buried together. The bodies have not been identified.