"THEY SHOOK HANDS AND PARTED."
“ Autolycus,” a writer well-known in Greymonth in flays gone by, and now as favorably known as a contributor to the Nelson Times thus discourses.—During the recent rough weather the Melbourne steamers have been unable to call at the West coast. The fact recalls to my mind a circumstance that while it tends to illustrate the dangers and inconveniences that attend travelling in New Zealand. About five years ago two men stood on the wharf at Greymonth anxious to reach Hokitika. The Dispatch was steaming up preparatory to tendering the Melbourne boat. “ Let us go by sea,” said one of the friends, “ and wo shall be in Hokitika by dinner time.” “ I don’t like the bars,” replied his companion, “ I will go by land.” They jKirted without further conversation. One on account of the steamer not being tendered at Hokitika arrived at his destination via Melbourne, Bluff, Dunedin, Lyttelton,and Nelson twenty two days after starting, the other was ■drowned crossing the Tcremakau—a l iver situate about midway between ithe towns named.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 795, 13 July 1877, Page 4
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