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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 521, 21 October 1890, Page 3

There has been a lot of roll-stuffing a Napier and Auckland, A correspondent writes Honesty rewarded 1 On Saturday afternoon, near the Infant School, a respectable working man found a little parcel, containing gold, bank notes, and other valuables worth a very large sum—a small fortune to a poor man, tie, with praiseworthy honesty, want to the trouble of finding the owner. At length he got to know a friend of the person who had lost the parcel, and taking it there he was rewarded with half a crown ! The man thoUEht it very hard that he should lose his time and be thus treated, while h» might still have done the thing honestly and advertised it, or have waited for the loser to do so, that expense alone being more than the reward. He went out to the steamer and interviewed the owner of the parcel, and he was rewarded with another half crown 1 Surely, sir, such huiesty and inch munificent generosity should not go unrecorded in the columns of the Standard 1 If the pedestrian looks closely at a post near the school he may see a modest chalk mark, placed there by some of the friends of the man whose honesty and loss of time were so generously acknowledged. If your journal publishes this don’t be annoyed at its being used as a banner to place half-post high beneath that little cha'k matkl am, &o, Nevki; A<..un,”

When Mr Bruce was speaking at Stratford (Waitotara) the other night he was asked a number of questions, and at lengt h got very impatient, telling the electors that he had not come there to be catechised iu that way. They laughed at him and told him to * keep his hair on.’ A final question was put to him— 1 Was he in favor of prohibiting settlers killing their own cattle and their own sheep for their own use’—and after he had replied ‘ No ’ he was allowed to go home.