WILE HE EVER GO BACK?

Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 158, 24 February 1903, Page 5

WILE HE EVER GO BACK?

A story of ex-President Kruger’s aptness at scriptural quotation was relafced at Muswell Hill by the Kev E. P. Lowery, a V esleyan missionarv, just returned from South Africa. After Mr Kruger had left the country ms officials who were left unpaid wrote to him for an explanation. The reply came on a post card ‘Proverbs chap vii, verse 19 & 20.’ The missionary, who was present when the post card arrived, turned up the text and read ; ‘The good man is not at home. He has gone on a long j’ourney. He hath taken with him a bag of money, and will be back at the time appointed ’ Mr Lowry added that as Mr Kruger omitted to take a return ticket when he leit Pretoria, the time appointed for his return was not yet affixed.

A corporal in an Irish regiment asked leave to attend a wedding. H e returned quite sober, but greatly mauled aiid carried on a shutter. His captain, who visited him in the hospital, inquired tne cause of his disaster, and was told in reply, ‘When I got to the church i saw a big fellow with a white bouquet m his coat standing outside the door. He asked me my name. And who are you ? says I. ‘l’m the best man’ says he. ion are not, says I, and 1 knocked him down. But, after all sir, as you see, he was.” A Scottish minister on one occasion the story goes, was asked to pray for ram. He did so, and the rain came down m floods and destroyed the crops. Irritated by the result, one confided to another that “this comes o’ intrustin’ sic a request to a meenister wha isna aequant wi’ agriculture.” The Westland County Council affords an instance of inapt alliteration. One member referred to his friend across the table, as a “bouncing, bounding, blatant bandit,” a mouthful that was quite impromptu of course ! .Edward Goodfellow, a groom, while driving from Parapammua to Paikakariki, was killed by a kick from the horse he was driving. The reins got tangled under the animai’s tail, and while freeing them, Goodfellow received a kick which ended fatally. The fund with which will be erected a monument on Massacre Hill in memory or Marlborough soldiers who lost tneir lives in South Africa now amounts to LI 60. ; J 7,V' 0r Worriers— are always effeclzi e. boxes everywhere. M