Miscellanous

Kaikoura Star, Volume VII, Issue 85, 21 October 1887, Page 4

Miscellanous

?h th“e'jlrytM, tells the ‘•TCHowttffc s«H-y 6f •arly days tn Melbourne :—Here is a scene 1 witnessed on the wharf. A fine yourig fellow, with manners of Oxford who had landed with only two sovereigns in his pocket (ufter settliDr, up with the steward and payI ing h» little whist debts) magnificently chnAerad a cab to carry him and his mirltifhrious belongings to a club to which tn bad an introduction, while a young Scotchman was cheapening the transport up town of his cheat Hy dray.' Finding he could it carried tb the‘Albion Hotel fonin than a sovereign, he (the Scotch to give liimeMf the job aiffiHKpuldering a huudrera-weig ht keif of luggage, he marched off igifh it through the mud as if it had been * bag of feathers he was carrying. But mark the difference in the subseqtent career of these two immigants. The one who earned bis first wages in Victoria by carrying his own chest has nowj} hundred thousand sheep nibbling grass and growing wool for bis behoof, and is- a prominent member of the Legislature of a neighbouring colony ; whja the ex-Etan and Oxford youth is Jdd man about a suburban publichouite, sometimes boot-black, sometimes ? y?J. jkeY. -ilwewt. fate? came about through or unlucky chance, but entirely through < the natural sequence of cm and effect- Each has reaped according as he sowed. IW tote of General Houston in the .3tat,q? ; seriate nn the repeal pf, AberJS rendered him unpoptilaf' fn Texas? In the political campaign ■ following he dre> large crowds as usual whenever he -spoke on the hustings, but was sometimes interrupted. On one occasion a local politican, Colonel Thompsor#gave the old veteran the lie direct in*«e-initfdle of a speech. The General paused ; all eyes were upon him, andi everyone was curious to. see bow the here of San Jacinto would resent thffiwontori insult. He said, promptly and very deliberately; Colonel me a liar. [Profound rlwit iffWylong life I have never told a

UStehood; bat, fellow citizens, I will upw tell the biggest lie J ever told in ml May life— Colonel Thompson is a gentleman!”