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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue XIX, 30 October 1897, Page 595

The tricks of the illicit diamond buyer in South Africa are legion. The •Johannesburg Standard’ recently reported a case of a man charged with receiving a package containing nine rough and uncut diamonds weighing six carats which were concealed in tablets of Vinolia soap and a pair of baby’s shoes. It is hut seldom perhajis that the prosaic though useful clothes brush is venerated as a household god, but there is an instance of one, which was used to remove mud from the G.O.M.’s hat, being so revered. Nearly eighteen years have passed, and the old lady still keeps the brush in her ■ kist of drawers,’ wrapped in a silk handkerchief, and. according to the gossip of the neighbours, she has given her relatives instructions that when she dies the article is to lie placed in her coffin and buried with her.