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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1336, 31 July 1883, Page 2

Sidney Josiah Rowley S. Bromley, oijoul farming celebrity and land speculating notoriety, who has undergone so many perils and hardships in the dense bush of Gladstone Road, “ where you cannot see the sun for days, aye weeks and weeks together,” worthy son of the “ late Dr. Bromley,” whose epauletts were the “ heirloon of the family,” who iu spite of the canabalistic and massacreeing propensities of the savage Maoris and the horrors of ceaseless fearful earthquakes unflinchingly and bravely determined at all hazards not to flinch from the dangerous, arduous and laborious task of—keeping a shoe shop and Eliza Wilmore, was brought up in conjunction with that gushing and bashful lady, before our R.M., on Saturday last, charged, this time, with refusing payment for a set of false teeth which had been supplied to owe of this gentleman’s (of such strong Brigham Young proclivities) wives—or— a-hem !—Ladies. Brigham—Bromley we mean, bashfully declined to say whether the gushing young female mentioned in the summons was his wife or not—not a very remarkable piece of reticence on Josiah’s part, considering all things. The fortunes of the day turned on a point necessitating the presence of No. Two. _ Whilst her gallant aud devoted champion and admirer went to escort her to the scene of action, Mr. Nolan, ungenerously taking advantage of the absence of this scion of the noble house of Dr. Bromley of epaulette fame, asked for and obtained a speedy summons against the aforesaid Josiah, on account of a debt due to another.’ On Josiah’s reappearance in Court with the i lady of his choice, whose charms “set all' hearts in a blaze,” he became very uneasy j and evident symptoms of nervousness began

to show themselves, quickly resulting in the exit of Josiah, who thus ungallantly left No. Two in the hands of the Philistines. But Eliza was found quite equal to the occasion, and seemed much amused at the situation as she sat “ smiling a sickly smile ” at the right hand of her legal adviser, who evidently wished his frail and wining client at—-h-ome. The fortunes of the day going against Eliza, she indignantly flaunted out of Court, sans false teeth, in search of her Josiah, who she was more successful in finding than the bailiff was who failed to effect service of a judgment summons,