TOO "CANNY."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 844, 16 June 1910, Page 4

TOO "CANNY."

MR. MTSAB AND A "CONFIDENCE* GANG. By a statement which he made in be. ginning his address at the Missions to Seamen last evening, Mr. Robert M'Nab raised , the excited hopes of his hearers only to dash them to the ground. He stated that he might, in other circumstances, be tempted to tell them a story for which he had been offered any money by a newspaper reporter, of his experiences for some months at the hands of a "confidence" gang. Mr. M'Nab did not tell the story, and a representative of TnE Dominion, who approached him later, was unable to persuade him to confide its details to the press. It appears, however, that a "confidence" gang in London paid n great deal of attention to Mr. M'Nab. Their schemes wero laid very adroitly, and even after the cautions stronger from New Zealand had begun to suspect—as he did very soon—that everything was not as it seemed, some time elapsed before he could be sure of his suspicions Altogether the gang followed and made proposals to Mr. M'Nab during no fewer than four months, while the New Zealauder made his own arrangements, and waited for the little game to develop.' The denouement was apparently most dramatic, and resulted in the would-be biters being badly bitten. If Mr. M'Nab would oDly tell the story as a "curtain-raiser" to his intended lectures in aid of the Cook Memorial Fund, the "Adventures of Mr. M'Nab" might be found almost as interesting as the adventures of Captain Cook. It was a London journalist who asked Mr. M'Nab to put his own price on. the story.