A Brace of Silly Tales

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 26, 25 June 1903, Page 17

A Brace of Silly Tales

It must be the silly .season up Marlborough way. At any late the local ' Express ' publishes—apparently in peiiect solemnity and sei lousness — two phenomenally stupid tales that are more fit ior the padded cell than foi the columns of a sane newspaper. Briefly, they run as lollow.s. Two wealthy Ficnch ladies died and left legacies, one ot o\er £3U0,000, and the other over £:* 1100 000 Some unnamed priests and nuns, and an anom mous aichl)ishop got possession of this vast wealth some \ ears ago without the smallest right cur title to it and without any legal formality whatever And all the tim,e theio wei'e dozens of people — ' six 01 seven laimlies ' in the case of the larger leg\u\— leg-all y entitled to this colossal wealth and vainly doing all 111 their power to lay hands upon it ! And tins m the 1-Yance ot tevday ' As to the writer of this mad/nan's tale • it is about high time lhat his friends should look alter him. The 'Marlborough Express' must h.ne a \ciy contemptuous estimate of the sanity of its leadeis