A PREACHER’S PLIGHT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1812, 19 July 1906, Page 2

A PREACHER’S PLIGHT.

An unpleasant' experience is reported to Baffin V™. ‘ ho E r ßV ‘ W ' SH'Sn of Bex Hill, Victoria. It appears ho had ar. ranged to preach at Yarrawooga, and left Melbourne on the previous afternoon. On T..! nS B r eDa ' 1 * bc fQU£ >d that no trSn but d h t 10 fcr Yarrawonga that evening, but determined to keop, his appointment aHnrof UCDd u th ° lDOf * l ;r«ilway officials to nn , , m u h ° USO of r ai iw a y tricvcle on which bo started to propel him»elf 4 / cold, nL, reaohid thn a•, Wnß fio,n S wdl Mill he 800 B ey Creek, a . blew him “ BtCCng SUe6 of w,ud OIOW film and tbo tricycle off the bridtre or d lsft eC h P l taled l bem ink > thß oteekor 15ft below. In tho foil he was nvi rend y fi° k by tho tricycle, and was In a dazed ~‘B tß bo . fouod timeelf standing in water up to his armpits, and groping about for Tbese bB hoovered, towith tiT lth th ° trio l ol °' and made his way with them out of the water to the bank dav i 8 , W ° onßd from exb “Ußtion, and at who was , n 18 , Waß f COVOtcd by a woman him and ft for OOW9 ‘ She aroused rovivod Wni him t 0 ber boußC ' where h 8 trinln, ’ VVub BCIUS assistance bo got tbo cyloon t° the railway line again, and eot out to oover tbo remaining 13 miles to Wwonga, which bo did, arriving there 3 “ y ,xb T ted condition between seven n mT nnd . noon ’ Actually a P bo WBB ln ® ba pulpit, with tht With h“, h ' a fB0 ? nnd *»- body oovel h * Jrenk „« Q 160l 60 , 8 nud al « B 8ious and wither* cCqiUo gut tkivugU the ertviot, 41