THEFT OF £30

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 4 March 1914, Page 8

THEFT OF £3O

ELDERLY NATIVE AND FELLOWPASSENGER. PRES3 A3SOCIATION.. AUCKLAND, March When on Sundav night James Quel travelled down t'.ie Wairoa river to Helensville his cabin-mate was an elr.ci1/ Native named M haka. 1" the morning Queen found that- £3O had been abstracted from the pocket;-, of his trousers, in which he slept. Mmaka was very evmpathetic, and i:ftVred to lend him £1- When, the I'-l-en--v.la p« Lee began to make i-uuiries. it waj «u» c that Mihaka h~d left on ine Auckland tjound train. The telephone was put, into use, and Mihaka u-is caught any.interviewed by <let«c ive, Ask.d to show ■all the money he had Mihaka turned G2 12 S lid out of hU pockety and said he \vould submit to a -e-roh if the detectives did not behev* him. They •■• 1 „ot. and his offer wa« a- centcd. Ihe Learch proceeded, but no further ca.h was found in his ohthes ria was hen, ordered to take eff his boots, which he did verv gingerly, stating that he had a Jo-e foot. He flinched, and maae a }*- S«k abouf "very r-cre" - a sea-* nj hand was put on one of his .stock .a«J. feet but the d**clive* wore in-x„r -ai,l« IS in "he heel of the sock n„ the so o Sot" tlu-v found te. ? rov-er«--'»« ; J * Jesuit was M'hakn-s immediate a.i-st n a charge of havin.g stolen Q , moncv. The Native appeared be me Mr Eraser. S.M., this morning, and w.remanded- for a week. _______ "Great Profit" froin your Ideas.—llf that idea of vours is worth anything its woith natentiS. Don't let the other man use SSidea and make the profit that hi be yours because you have not the protection of a patent. C° ns ™ Henr? Hughes, Ltd., 157 Featherstonstreet, Wellington.* •