A MOVING INCIDENT.

Dunstan Times, Issue 508, 12 January 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)

A MOVING INCIDENT.

—6— The Grey mouth Evening Star relates the following, which occurred on a recent departure of the Kate Cond y from the Greymouth wharf.—“ Some miner’ at the Stony Lead had come into the town on the previous evening and had disposed of some twenty ounces of gold. The custodian of the proceeds, unknown to his mates, took his passage for Melbourne by the schooner. Early next morning, when the schooner was about to sail, he betook himself to tho wharf, and was about to proceed on board the vessel, when a mate of his, who either suspected or was informed of his intention interfered materially with the peacefulness of his departure. The two men were seen walking together, when suddenly, and put when the Kate Conley’s lines were being cast off, one levelled his list, with painful accuracy and force at the right optic of the other. The operation was repeated in the direction of the left eye, and the united result was that, almost in the twinkling of one, both the man’s eyes were what is vulglarly described as “ bunged up.” The two men closed, struggled, fell, and in the fall the levanler, whose personal appearance had been so rapidly altered was uppermost. He took advantage of this circumstance to spring to his feet, and, just in time to secure his passage, he made a long leap from the wharf right on to the deck ot the Kate Conley. It was too Lite and too risky for his assailant to follow him, and the latter had only leisure, mid curses loud and deep to assure him that, whatever their mutual mates might feel, he at least felt satisfied with the extent to which, at such short notice and with so little ceremony, they had been able to square accounts He hoped his departing friend wr uld carry with him to Melbourne tho receipt stamps which he bore upon his cheekbones, and from appearance there was every probability of the nun doing so ”