HAVING A GOOD TIME.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 872, 22 November 1906, Page 21

HAVING A GOOD TIME.

A Southern paper relates that among the “take downs” who are visiting Chris church for the Exhibition is a young Maori woman, who, the other day, at one of the local hotels, represented herself to be a sister of the Hon. James Carroll. On the strength of this represen ation she got goods from Messrs Bing Harris and Co. for a young man, whom she said was going up to Wellington to be private secretary to her brother. She also during the day played the confidence trick on several people, and had a great day at the races, where she was introduced to several notabilities as Miss Carroll. On returning to the hotel in the evening she was celebrating her victories with champagne, when she was arrested, and the sequel came in six months’ imprisonment. Her name is Mata Tainui, and she had only been four days out of gaol for similar frauds.