MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1100, 14 June 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr William Kelly, publisher of the Irishman, and late publisher of the United Ireland, was run over and killed on the railway at Kingstown. The Rangitikei Advocate gives the following instance of the cuteness of the Maori race as exemplified a few days ago at Feilding. A well-known native walked into a bank in that town and said to the manager, "If I give you £50 an d then go away for a year, how much you give me when I come back V He was informrd that he would receive £S"J at the end of the time mentioned. For a moment he appeared to be absorbed in deep thought, and then said with extreme naivete, " If you give me £00, I go away for a year, and when I como will give you L 52." Tl>e genial banker smiled a smile, but was " not on." An Edinburgh solicitor, recently deceased, used to tell with great glee how he was once visited by an elderly respectable looking man, who stated that lie had come to have his will drawn up. Seeing the prospect of a good client, the solicitor devoted much time to drawing up the instrument, in which property, shares, and funds to a considerable amount were assigned to certain relatives. "When the client had paid many visits, and was at length pKised with the wording of the will, the solicitor asked where theproperty, ite., was invested. I haven't any '. I only want my relatives to see after I'm dead what I would hay,> ,\o\-m for them had 1 been able, '