HE CAUGHT THE BOAT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1854, 13 September 1913, Page 3

HE CAUGHT THE BOAT.

AND HOW. It was Bruce, tho Auckland forward in tho New Zealand team for California. Ono could bo excused for uot recoj;uisins him as 110 stood at the' foot of tho King's Wharf, gazing at the Willochra visibly affected. "What is it, old man?" was asked sympathetically. "Ye gods! "I'ro had a shock I Thought I had done in tho trip to America. But there slio is all right!" "She, who?" • "Tho Willochra—thought I had done her in. ... I was up at a friend's place away up at the top of Cuba Street and I happened to be glancing down the shipping columus of one of the papors, and saw, or thought I saw, that the Willochra was sailing at 3 p.m. It was then ten minutes to 3. I imagined I could.take no risk, though I remembered tho manager saying that the boat did not sail until 5 p.m. I was so certain that tho paper must be right that I rushed into the street and toro down to Voitch arid Allen's corner. After a delay of somo minutos I got a taxi, promised tho driver a reward if ho caught tho boat, and hero I am. She sails at 5 p.m.!" With that Bruce, as disconsolate as his royal' namesake who took a lively interest in spiders, seized tho iron cup in ono of the public drinking fountains, and drank a lonf: draught of cold-water, after which ho slowly recovered.