A COOL CUSTOMER.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 107, 14 January 1880, Page 2

A COOL CUSTOMER.

Those amiable gentry who claim the. assistance of the -Government whitewashbrush, to. relieve them of "their pecuniary difficulties, are as a'rfile 'no^liurcldned'-vitu^ any nice distinctions about meum and tuum, and, ap, far as. their, creditors are ooncerned appeal 1 to act upon tKFprineiple b£ "-.whafifa yours ii mine, andpjrhat's taine remyiown."--One of, <jhe. SJsrogekßrigade, who .lately " went over to.,'th<jT majority," ha 3 exhibited such, a refreshing otUjeiousnessof any bonds, moral or legal, to bind hijni $o his creditors, that on the score of novelty, and; aa a, speci- • men, of sublime coolness, 1 produce it. The. gentleman m .question — w.ho, by.JjSß^i way, has done the thing respectably, and J filed for » sum. tyroisth. naming-^in lus^Jjatj^r ment of assets, ampngst, others; had an itetifT of £10, cash m hand; Sf \ ' down. ; Time. : passed: on, and when m th» course: of- . business the Registrar, of the. Court applied^ for the sum to he. forwarded to him," the" Cool Cine curtly replied to the demand, thafc, :it was quite out of his ppw T er, to, do anything? of the. sort, for the simple reason that^ie. ha,d applied- it. to. his own use, and under his. pressing deoessities.it had; "melted like tho. enow beneath the morning sun." While,, admiring fche.poetry,lfehe,ilegistrar objected ' :to the prjoceeding, and has given^ th'e > p.O. ; three, days to disgorge the' appropriated ' money, or suffer criminal prosecution for. embezzlement.* Sio, apparently oblivious was the delinquent'of hsiv.ing. done anything: J at all shady, thafc on. receipt of that intimar tipn lie. wired to the official^ to know if the threat was not a joke. However, the: answer was so satisfactory upon: that -pointy that the estate will receive the £10, not-, withstanding its.havjtng been already spent.