What may happen to a man named Hamer.

Manawatu Herald, 6 May 1893, Page 2

What may happen to a man named Hamer.

— ' '•■ "■♦ ''.•''.•. ...■ ■: There is sometimes much in a name. So a tourist who arrived in Wellington the other day found. His name was Hameiv^ He was lul£ up of the importance of Britons in general, and British tourists in , particular. He believed, '^lfey owned the earth. Ifeput Up at a" leading hotel. Mr T. Harper, the Preiniei'a private secretary, put-up ! at the same hotel. Ministers i; {especially the Premier) are persons to whom night and day are one, 'who* sleep, and hardly ever eajb-T-except^at banquets. Private secretaries lir^, people wh<k try to dq. these, ..things,land some-* times they succeed. At other times their lives are ordered as the lives of Ministers; At 4 a.iii; last Sunday the Minister of Public^ Works sent for Mr Hamer, ; Privafe 'Secretary. An energetic hotel employe" proceeded to the ropm of Mr HameL tourist, and thundered thereon m awakening peal. Mr Hamer, tourist^ leapt from his warm bed under the impression that the house was on fire, found it was nqt> and retired to rest once more. He had scarcely slept before another messenger came over, was directed' to his rojfjk rushed up, knocked, yelled Seddon says to hurry Up," and. fled as he heard the infuriated inmate rushing for the. door. Once more the unfortunate, : toqr jst.i : composed himself to sleep,, hut, .presently the Minister, chafing under , the delay, sent still another messenger, who, also directed to the room of " Mr

Hamer," roused the now maddened ; tourist a third time, and intimated that Mr Seddon said he had to wait there till he got him out of bed. After standing the siege for a while 1 the British subject burst upon his tormentor and demanded in sulphurous language to know who this ;Mr Seddon was, and when he was told that he was the Acting Premier and insisted on his coming over at onoa, he swore by the Britannia who iule3 the waves, and all his other gods, that all the Premiers in this ■infernal country would not move him, and that they would have to call out their adjective troops if they wanted to quell him, and if he wasn't left alone at once he would telegraph to Mr Gladstone and bring the British Government down on them. Then there were mutual explanations, and it was discovered that the original Hamer was peace fully enjoing the repose of which his namesake had been robbed ; but Mr Hamer, tourist, packed up his portmanteau and left the country by the next boat, and his story of the way British subjects are oppressed by Colonial Ministers will make exciting reading- for his friends.— Post,- :-, -,•■■, „■- ■