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Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 526, 1 June 1869, Page 2

A practical joke was played by the Commandant of the Island of Perim, in the Bed Sea, last Christmas Day, on the captain of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Carnatic. Signals of distress were exhibited on the island, and as soon as the steamer had been arrested in her course — much to the alarm of the passengers, who were at dinner — the officer on shore telegraphed that the garrison " had nothing to eat. " The captain did what all captains of British vessels always are ready to do, viz., ordered a boat to be lowered, told off an officer and men, and commenced to load her with a bountiful supply of provisions, including the half of the passengers' plum-pudding, which was quite a triumph of culinary art. But as soon as the officer ashore saw that the boat was being lowered, he signalled " go ahead," and the captain good-natu-redly laughed at the gallant gentleman's pleasantry and proceeded on the voyage towards Aden, at the same time remarking that the garrison had better be careful not to cry " wolf" too often.— The Asiatic.