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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 134, 5 June 1873, Page 4

44- A Story, too good to be allowed to pass T^wae ; ;tpld * 4 yesterday of what hap- , y Opened in this city some ten dkys ago. One [y yo't jptif presidents, who had formerly lived ff|^in^Dunedin, fell in by accident with an old 44 vmate)^hiH_i he had worked^with at: the .'''rD'Dnsi-b-gbldnelds...- The mate was comy..: plaining, that since he* landed in Auckland he had ba9ii.un„ble to obtain any employment. The winter was staring him in the. face. He was out of cash, out of clothes, and in all respects decidedly out of luck. Our citizen, thinking for a few seconds, at last said " What do you think of a residence at Mount Eden for six weeks or, a\couple of months until things look up a bit ;the living is anything but bad. There are- good sleeping-bunks, and upon my word the more X come to think of it, I see you eould do better.', " Well, " said the mate, ,'\l cannot go to gaol until I have done something to be sent there, and I 'haven't done anything in that line, and don't suppose I shall. The mate's male- replied as follows:-—" I don't want you to do anything wrong. Here's what r ': I mean:— l will lend you £2. You will ■-: understand that, I suppose? , Well, : you don't pay. me. That's clear; isn't it ? I summons yqu for not paying :me (although of course you will), -_,-■; and get a judgment against you. Well, you .don't pay even then, so I get a warrant against you, and you are sent to :gaoL for two months unless you 'pay my .claim before the time expires. Npw, do 1 you understand ? " The mate did under--Btand,,:and answered by saying, "But will ; you; lend me. the £2?'' The mate's mate, thereupon, lent the money, and it was ;agreed{thata\ summons should be taken out for the amount in two days from that ' time. Thesummons was in due course „ taken; out. The bailiff went io serve it at Ihe address indicated, .which was at an hotel in Hobson-streefc, when it was ascertained; the man was nowhere to be found. 'He had ., gone the day. before, it it was believed, but not known for certain, 4 in the direction pf Cpromandel. He had "'■•. preferred, the £2wth liberty rather than free quarters at Mount Eden Gaol. The mate's mate discovered he had been most egregiously sold, and it . is likely to be a long < time ere he'again offers to his most bosom friend the means of going to gaol for even . 4 ever so short & eyelid Auckland Herald, 'V.-"'. . Jack's Pat Dat<-t-" Pay-day "on board. H.MiS.. Clio having come during the recent stay of the ship in Hobart Town,>ibe tars are reported to haye celebrated-; the: event as follows:— About a dozen had hired an": omnibus, which had ■:>* been decorated in a decidedly novel ■■:.- &^}?s\ yA. ..pieoe'of quatering had been : naileeTon the roof lengthways, and "astern" the projection .served as a sort of . davit, to ; which ; a, wheelbarrow had been slung. On the piece of quartering that projected over the front. of the 'bus a large doll had been fixed as a figurehead, and there was a barrel of beer on the box. There were other decorations, including some sheets :of painted canvas, bearing mottoes, ; and three or four flags. The costumes of some of the occupants of the vehicle were most extraordioaryi" One had his trousers ornamented with rope ends, which hung •; : like scalp locks from the leggings of a Red Indian, ;___ another... was .dressed in particolored trouser of blue and white, two were^dressed in women's costume, with flowers in their hair, while others wore battered white' hats of the belltopper order. A cab that was driven behind the 'bus also contained, some strangly dressed individuals; As the vehicles were driven through the; town, one of .the men in the omnibus took soundings with a bur oh of carrotß tied. to. a long string, and . * the same operation was carried on in the cab behind, a sheep-'s head serving; for a lead in this instance; The sailors all seemed bent on fun,' and they drove through. the streets singing merrily. Whenever, the oranibus ; and cab stopped, / ; and it was time <o start again, the order, '? all aboard," was shouted out, and the driver was comaianded to "shove off" without delay. Coming up Elizabeth-street at half-past 3 o'clock in the afternoon, a marine fell from, the box of the bus. The . cry of a "man overboard" was raised, the vehicle was " brought to," the wheelbarrow was lowered, and the marine placed in it and ; restored tb his former •seaton "the box.