ONE OF NATURE'S NOBLEMEN.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 6952, 30 January 1890, Page 4

ONE OF NATURE'S NOBLEMEN.

The want of commercial morality h being continually dinned into our ears ; indeed it was only the other day the public were gravely informed tbat there was no such thing as strict commercial integrity in the colonies. We are happy to state that the colonien are not bo degenerated ai some would niakd out, and tbat among our dealers aro those whose unselfish honesty will do much to build up a nation of wbieb our descendants wi 1 have reason to be proud. A case in point. Many years •go— far outside the Statute of Limitations, a gentleman in business in our little town, from no fault of bis oiro, bat through dire necessity, h»d, after struggling on for some time, to seek th« protection of the Bankruptcy Coutt. Being unable to make end* meet in the basinet ia which he had embarked, he left Eiverton and starlet) an entirely new life in a not veiy distant locality. He fondly hoped tint the land he took up would in the course of a few years produce sufficient -wherewith to pay off all his creditors, but farming has not, we are sorry to any, proved very remunerative of latt years, and the particular farm to which we allude did not yield more than enough for the farmer to hold his own. Our friend, however, having become a legatee, not to a great extent, straightway looked up all to whom he had ever owed the slightest sum, and with a smiling faoe said be was pleased at last to extinguish a debt tbat the law* of the land had long siooe refused to recognise. In the course of fourteeD years great changes take place, and it ii not surprising (hat several of the ex-Rivertonian business man's creditors should have paid a debt of nature, but sums due to the dead were faithfully paid to those tbat they had left behind. Such acts as those we have recorded deserve to be heralded abroad, and we are sure the name of Mr John H. Simon, farmer, Myrosa Bush, will be respected wherever be is knorrn.— Western Star.