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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 138, 18 May 1883, Page 2

James Pa ton Bays that a : curious circumstance occurred many years ago, when a testator m England left £10,000 to a friend, but with the condition that one»half the sum should be buried witt him m the coffin. The legatee tooh advice on the' matter. 'Where is thk money now?' asked the friend. 'In the bank,' was the reply. •AH right,' saie he adviser; '"Write a cheque for £5000 d and put it m the old man's coffin payable to his order.' ' ' A few days ago an old woman, upwards |of ninety years of age, died at a| place called Eglington, near Londonderry. The ' usual arrangements for the funeral were made, and the coffin was closed and taken m a hearse to the place of interment, where the service was duly gone through, the coffin lowered, and the grave filled m. On reaching home, however, the relatives of the deceased were amazed to fiod th,e corpse of the old woman lying on the bed upon which she had expired, itnot having been placed m the coffin. The body was subsequently taken m a cart to the grave, the coffin raised, and the corpse was placed m it and interred. The buah road between Tauranga an 0 * Ohinemntu is m a bad state, and tourist* are frequently, stuok m the bush all night* Napier people prefer throwing their* fruit to the pigs to selling it to the fruit shops at 4d per lb. Tons of apples are rotting through laziness orgreed.