A Supper of Gold.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3468, 25 March 1890, Page 2

A Supper of Gold.

; Tho miser in tbo Empire ballot fails ! ignominiously in makingihifßup] er ■ off round gold coins. r Dear Mrs Grey of Deptford, however, could give him two stone and a licking at the process —or, to put it mildly, at putting in sovereigns as make-weight after par* taking of a Beauty supper (aa'ys an -•£ English paper). Seventeen of the ) thick 'una disappeared tliusly, and, ■ according to the woman's confession f to the Greenwhicli police,. Ehe.stole t them from a man with vfhom ste "had i been " conviving ." BecotaiMjf f repentent, she did, pilgrim duty'or 9 penance by eating the golden coins 3 one after another. yHer detrautorsi; say that' this novel method* vM' 3 adopted because the poor lady had t closed ber banking account, and that ;j it was because of" no sich " thing as e repentancj, but simply and solely;- . because she folt ill, that she "invoked' a the ,law." However, that may be, ■- Mrs Giey is at present in 1 the' Miller t Hospital.sufferingfioin " gold.cmze," ' y and in sore trouble beciuae she has i tasted of wealth and found it bitterer 3 than wormwood.' Such' a wholesale j/ innsticatioa of tho yellow boys has s never, before boen'knWn.