NOTES BY A GLOBE TROTTER.

Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 6, 30 August 1901, Page 4

NOTES BY A GLOBE TROTTER.

Mr 6--hu 1-iavtell, in some notes concerning the (Atony, tells some good yarns. In Wellington, he was informed, it was not miiai to follow your hat when i“ blew away. “ You simply stand still ami wait till sc.me other fellow’s hat ec»mes your way, which you pick up and walk away with as the propel- > g." Oil the road to Tauwcra, his voice wa •; 1 a tier husky, and lie hoard a man sa\ to the driver, ” I .-ay. Jim, ain’t that gout’s hooter out of order. Mind, I m the only undm taker within twenty miles if any thing happens.” Tins, lie said, reminded in m of tlie deacre of a ch.ipel In Barnstaple "'ho was anxious to let the people know lie was in office. As he showed the ladies to their seats one Sunday morning he put a small card in their hands as they were about to bow their heads in prayer. On the card he had printed, “ Please remember my drapery sale commences to-mor-row. ” 011 arriving at New Plymouth, he notice ;;! a very stout c Id party sitting in mi armchair under the veranda of an hotel. I approached, with the query, “ Are you the proprietor ?'•’ “ N-no, - ’ lie stuttered cut, *• I’m not the p-prip-pi in-uriet-or o’ t-this ’stahlishme-it, hut I’m s-t-t-t;i!g Are to show the g-good f-f-xeeding of the ’ouse.” Mr Hartell put up there. A Rotorua lady informed Mr Hartell that she had been watering her flower garden with milk for a month.