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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 16 April 1907, Page 1

A good story is told by the " Akaroa Mail " of a Maori, who, having lo3t his wife, asked a Kuropean who was going from Little River to Christchurcb to procure a coffin for his wife's burial. When the European came back from town that afternoon the Maori met hire, and askfld if he had procurad the coffin, and an his answering in the affirmative tho Maori shook his hand in thanks for the trouble he had gone to in the proeiring of the coffin for his wife, and idded : "I hope I shall soon be able to do the same for you." The snaak thief appears in many shapes and devices (says the " Otago Daily Times.") One of the latest is to obtain a bicycle t'eket from the Railway Departmens, there being no bicycle to represent it. Then, at the end of the journey, a suitable machine is claimed, and detection of the cheat is difficult! Instructions have therefore been given that no tickets are to be issued unless the bicjcle is in evidence. It is whispered on fie West Coast (says a contempo r ary) that an important flaw ha* been discovered in tho late Premier Seddon's will, but that the family have agreed to fettle the matter privately.