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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 34, 10 January 1885, Page 4

An inventive fellow has designed the following project for achieving} a fortune atone stroke (says " iEgles" m the Australasian). It certainly .beats, the '.Breniernayen .' scheme, an& involves no ! loss bf!.life , The t proposal, is .that . the emmisary of an English underwriter should arrange with the captain of a woolship, carrying perhaps .£loo,ooo' worth of cargOy not to arrive m : London for 170 days* The skipper might tow his niainsail> or manage the delay m any manner least likely to awaken suspicion. The rest is simple. As uneasiness grows at non-arrival the underwriter in' the secret' takes all the wager risks offered to him at SO guineas per cent, and upwards/ The ship arrives safely at last, the underwriter retires from buisness buys a country house, devotes the rest of his life to works of benevolence, and afterwards, has a. stained-glass obituary window m the parish church. (All rights reserved.}