A NEGRO CHEAT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2146, 10 April 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

A NEGRO CHEAT.

I'SfsOK June laht A tnl), handsome ncpro pceaoher, nailing h!«n«plf the Principal of Summer Cofleac, Karika*, h-ts hoen u {Cre-'t of'jecf^ of interest in uiliurious. ami phlittothiopift, ciwlim iv Gbisaow, His OHtentnMe mission •to y.;ntlund was th«i railing' of a iund to educate mihSiLnaiif. for the West Coist of Afnoa, With -credeutmlH trpparenlly authnntia, he ■ at opce twined hu cutiance into tho be-t yircl«t. in tl.e city. Pleading tlio c.iusetof hirt mission, he officiated iv nenily ail the principal Presliyterian churches, and rcopiyed often as 'auoh as £20 at one diet — the proceeds of the collection. There wns a deal of xomanoa about the htory of Ins enrly life, nnd the eloqiienoe of hi* dia-coui-fls ohurmed hi> h teners. Any aupposition of fcauvi ru\er -eems to have ontcredinto the mini* of the propl« ho mmc in contact with Ho xesided Jit a iirst-cliiSH hotol, and was -joined by a bidy iriven nut to bo hi- wife. Tumgw ihua went, on wuhrrmjip«<lN*ro, as he styled himself, uutU a couple of days airo, when tome difficulties arose between Mrs Nero and a finn of diapers regarding the price of a fashionable ostume which nho hud purchased. , Suspicions began to be around, and U^e secretary of the Christian. Institute wrote to tho three churches m which be was to preach ou Sunday la>>t, advi<inif them to postpone the rjoqueut negro'a sermon. Two of the churches complied, hut the pusedo puuupd,l gained an entrance to pm; of the pulpits iv tho even* inir, and, i^unaal, g.tvc great satisfaction. Oo Mpndtiy, as ha \* as about to take his flight' to London, with over £200 in his posBt'6i>bn, ho was at rested. Tim Young Men's Christian A^vjuation, New York, hat telegraphed th it he his no counection with t"he Summer College, Examination of his langnjge rt?vealed an rmboshcd stump of the 'College mA various other documents which justified the authority-* inreroituiiirhiin on a ch-irxeor obtaining over £500 by f-aud. Letters, it i.s said, ftom numerous lidies in Glasgow and elsewliere were discovered among hiu effects of n jnoit amatory uotitte. Theso will not bf ptnduo°d at tho poaecution, as they do nut affect thu chaise on which ho will be ai raided. A tnoic succe-sful case of duphfitj in chincli-^oing circles has nit happened for a loui; time.

It doesn't tire a man lulf so much to saw a cord of wood as it doe 1 ' to arcing a, baby white its mother's away.