A Youthful Traveller.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 129, 8 November 1884, Page 3

A Y outhful Traveller.

[ toKßpapeotingjthe Boy iati igtsmfii- *9 W«H*gM»«*i» /^tyeroafitt " 5 writes m the Auckland Herald : — A. "^rat^d^itir CotIJ boy^in; fall costume of the time of Kiffg' A Edyrayd'YL df fan^oaji noißmioty, a.d. 1552; ; is a rara avis m thifi jiart ?bf 1 the world. ' Therefore" when j the s.p. Wairarapa arrived, tfie o^her f iJay, most people were somewhat astonished "to V^servea' Bcbpiar bf that :fli *eltr SknoWn'-insfcitation m the blue 1 <joat , and yellow stockings familiar to Lon- , doners. Upon enquiry it ifas aioertained that the little fellow whose Same is Walter Enight, had been Cent out on a tour for the benefit «f ..jhis heilth, he paving met with^'aii 'accident, while playing, at football necessitated the amputation of Jhis right leg below the 'knee', on the j 17th 4)l last April. He left Londdn 1 ■'■ on 11th June, and had visited "Porti . Darwin in 'tie north of Australia, ■ I^Hw)W^ih«;&/7 1 ttictenli > and is? iiqw on the way Wanganwi with hig mother to spend a montn with'his , nstor, who is married, to. Mr Culpan, manager of an insurance company m - thajt town. Whilst in 1 Australia the v>t raditions of the school, precluding the ■Rearing of a hat, had to be paodified, "^o account of the burning;; Heat of the northern district. The menial?:! of the Auckland branch of Old Blues 'Ido'keclupdrithearriva.l as a sort of ., Captain Qopk amongst Blues, being ' 'the first yirji'b has visited New 1 Zea^ land, dr • iniJeed the Southerh Herilis* .. pherej lnjcostume, and. Ibhey chartered a cktiii^ a l rid drV)V« but to (pnchuttga and showed the young protege aroUud. ' .It is' their intention to commemorate '■'"' the occasion by having; a photograph' taken. of all the^ memberis of the Auckland society arranged m ; the; 'usual form of a I shield, with : the ■" true blue" An- regolitionv costume .fcrimng the centre. ' ■ - ■