TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12100, 18 March 1910, Page 6

TOWN EDITION

The final m the tennis competition foi Ma* 11. U. Burkes trophy Avas played oft this morning, Avhen A.dair and Mils* Oi-aw-iord (ree. 35) beat Margoliouth ami .Miss Sherratt (owe 20) by 90 to 64. v ' The Electroscoi>e Advertising Conir pariy, Avliose exhibition (if moving pic ; lures and advertisements of leading firms last evening attracted a. number of people, arc exhibiting m Gisborne for another six nights m the same location, near tho firebell. Harvest thanksgiving services are to be conducted -by the Rev. W. Grant m ;st. AndreAv's Church next Sunday. Special music will be rendered by the choir morning and evening, and special offerings are, to be received for the sustentationfimd and congregational assessments. * ,' A Sydney auctioneer avos the victim of an impudent, swindle. He had a, property at Watson's Bay for sale, and a young man called on him, and stated that his father Avas an American, millionaire aboiit to visit Australia, and had instructed him to acquire a property with a water frontage. The property at, Watson's Bay, of which a photograph was m 'the auctioneer's Avindow, Avould, . ho '«iidy just suit. Tlie auctioneer arid the prospective, buyer visited the proi>erty, and the price fixed ..was £4fcCo. trhey returned to the city and the young •man. wrote out an open cheque for JCICCO to clinch/the t vans-action. Both apparently.j»atisfied, they lunched together at an.-. adjoining hotel, 'where' the youth filled m a cheque for several pounds, but the hotel-keeper demurred to taking the cheque, amd the auctioneer endorsed it. Tlie mOney Avas then /paid over by .the hotelkeeper. Next .•'morning the owner of the property visited the "auctioneer's office, and, ori being shown the cheque for £1000, instructed 1 ' the' auctioneer to cash' it, retain his commission of £125, arid pay the balance into his (the owner's)' ..account. A lad Avas sent 'round '-to tho bank,- and returned Avith tho m firniiJition that, there Avas no su'en account, -a rid - almost simultaneously cariie -a messago from the hotelkeeper tliat his cheque had been returned. ■:.•-'-.- J -|