A Special Correspondent on His Travels.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 6, 23 June 1887, Page 4

A Special Correspondent on His Travels.

The '’Sight Honorable John Burke,’ vho was a recent visitor to Gore, has distinguished himself in Lawrence even more greatly than on his recent visit to this place. The Tuapeka Times gives a humorous account of his visit to the editorial office. John had the misfortune to get locked up for drunkeness, and informed the Bench that he was suffering from an ailment for which gin was the only remedy, and as he had to take it in fa ; rish doses, it had somewhat overcome him, He requested that med’cal attendance, with the necessary comforts, be prescribed dur'ng the term of incarceration,which his Worseip might think fit to bestow". Fined 5s or 24 hours. Mr Burke’s career in Gore, though brief, was glorious. He came to this office, his eye in a file frenzy rolling, aud redolent of imbibition, asking if we would accept an article on the financial state of the country, railway accomodation at Pukerau, and such other topics as might suggest themselves. He stated that he was last special correspondent of the Temuka Leader, and as he had no card he left his name and description on a sheet of foolscap as a guarantee of his respectability. This interesting document now adorns the wall of our office. We gave him, in order to get rid of ’him, a bundle of spoiled billheads, on which we had designed to record the burning thoughts of our own seething brain, and he left after slating that he would furnish the article in shorthand if necessary. We then resumed our labors, aud v. ere grappling with a syllogism w hen John again came in. Unfortunately, be said, he was called away to attend to a breach cf promise case, and had not quite finished the article. Could we let him have five shillings’ We said that the rule of the office was to pay for contributions strictly after completion, and John departed leaving behind him a mingled odour of effete whiskey and moribund onions. We saw him shortly afterwards at the railay station. He was the centre of a crowd larrikiuS, and somebody had given him peace io pay his fare to Waikaka. With [ ny fioariihes of hi antique but he got on ■ hetraij, qnd then,condescendingly informed 1 Hanson, the stationmaster, that he was eady now, and the train could be started. e last seen of John was the frautic waving I his hat anfHfte auiffix Jo all , the |