CORRESPONDENCE.
A CONFIDENCE TRICK. (To till© Editor.) Sir, —I think the general public, and more;.especially the “softies” who travel in our coastal steamers,- will bo grateful to-you if you will kindly expose a confidence. trick that- was successfully played off on four men who came t-o Gisborne from Napier last week.' A fellow passenger accosted them severally- with the yarn that he had or.-ly a cheque with which to-pay his passage money, and the purser wouldn't cash it. Would they oblige him with 12s 6d which he would repay on- iarriva.l in Gisborne _ whither he too was bound? They obliged him, but on alighting at the wharf saw nosign of the hawk, who resumed his voyage probably to pluck more pigeons can route to Auckland.—l am, etc., F. C. LEGGETT, Ormond, 17th January. 1912.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3426, 18 January 1912, Page 2
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134CORRESPONDENCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3426, 18 January 1912, Page 2
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