Parsons as Jonahs.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1921, Page 3

Parsons as Jonahs.

AN ARCHDEACON’S ADVENTURES AT SEA. SYDNEY. Sept. 11. Stunlx mill humorous to his iinu;i,rlips and tin* j'nmtlson of AuM ralin’s first white woman, ArrlMoaroii <);»kos is known ami loved hy settlors in the most lomoto parts of Now South Wains. On foot and on horseback, in a and, in more recent years, hy motor oar, tIuMV are few parts ol tin* Km- W»M that ho lias not visited, and in all his long tours ho used to loavc trail of marriages and baptisms boiiimi him. Ono night, ho relates, a nervous hushmau approaohod him at a distant boniest end und usked if he would he prepared to marry him on the following ('milling before lie was in bis saddle mid olf 111 (! a.III. "Certainly.” said the Arehdeaeim, “ami who is the 1-ulv '” The prospective bridegroom became re I icont. The fan of the matter uns, lie confided, lie had not proposed yeti’ However, lie was ready at •"> o’clock the next morning with ins bride, and the Ariliileas.ni’s morning meal was a wedding breaklast. At the present moment the Ar.-li-deiieiiii is visiting Norihern Queensland lU ii| j,, I, letter relates an amusing storv against the cloth of the trip up the eeast. "The sailors,” he says, “evideiillv believe the story of Jonah and the whale. There were, as a matter of fact-, three 'Jonahs' on board a Roman Catholic priest. a Methodist parson, and myself. One priest, they said, means being an b.nir or two late ; 1 1,ice means four hours' delay, with the possibility of the ship going to Cm

bottom. . f “(Yrtaiiilv the captain told us that the second,. 'night at sea was the worst | had experienced for some years, lie was called to the bridge, at 3 a.ill. and had an anxious time. There was a oUiiiile gale, together with a seven-knot current, black darkness, and blinding u 7 a.m. n steam pipe blow out and tbe vessel was del.,.veil exactly tour hours. 'lt’s all through those Jonahs su-l the sailors. Very few ol us wen! to breakfast next morning, and must ~|- the passengers cancelled tliei: through tickets at Gladstone and tun! the train to Brisbane. deeded to remain aboard, though < «as frankly assured that if things did not improve | should he handed to the whale, s-'tra„go to say the other two Jonahs had no sooner gone than the sea 1«came decently smooth, the storm completly abating. M.v character wns quite rehabilitated."