A Yankee Over-stretches.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10392, 9 May 1927, Page 5 (Supplement)

A Yankee Over-stretches.

“In a Gisbprne church on Sunday,” said the “Standard” on September 16, 1900, a visiting Yankee parson took as an illustration that a townsman had £IO,OOO on liis premises at night and that tho fact was no secret. And not a smile was to be observed. One of .those present, could not help wondering if the minister .had net been told the story of a leading business man saying at a meeting of creditors of a bankrupt publican that lie did not believe there was £IOOO in Gisborne, banks reckoned in.” An Excellent Example. Thus' the Gisborne correspondent of the Nanier “Newr ; ” on July 1. 1890: “Only last week. Mr. Field, of Waimata, a rising* district almost inaccessible three veers ago, sold for 1176 a head a. lo‘t of sheen of a "class Which he would have had trouble; in •getting 51- nor head twelve months: agov -Mr Field is a young man who enn set the town crowding, billiard plavinc: colonial youth an example .o’ wha.t (Tan lie done by energy arid a fondnef# for work.”