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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1523, 7 November 1873, Page 8

"SOMETHING TO HIS ADVANTAGE." " Snyder" in the Auckland Weplcly Herald writes: —l am gathering together all sorts of funny facts in connection with people being made a .convenience of. Some time hack, in this go- • a-head city of Auckland, a man ran into debt with a storekeeper, and, having done this much, he ran away. The tradesman, after a time wrote " boltod " on the creidt' 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 he had had a large property left to him, and .. was keeping a lady and a buggy. Now, as a summons from Queen-street, Auckland, won't operate in Bourke-street, Melbourne, the storekeeper hit upon an invention so ingenious that many a man has received a pension for life for one not half so good, He sent an advertisement to a Melbourne paper that if J.T.S.M., late •of Auckland, would ebme over he would hear of something greatly to his advantage by applying to A. and 8., solicitors, prothonotarios, &c. And J.T.S.M., under the impression that he was coming in for a second landed estate, didcome over by the next steamer, and he was served with a summons for the storekeeper's debt. I think thw is making a convenience of a man, and I don't think that man liked it a little hit,