A CHEQUERED CAREER.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2791, 4 March 1882, Page 2

A CHEQUERED CAREER.

Reviewing a new work, “ A chequered career, or fifteen years in Australia and Now Zealand,” the Melbourne “ Argus” gives the following descriptive bit. The story, it may be added, has had several heroes." Returning to England, the author found himself once more longing for a colonial life, and so he went a sec - ...uo to Now Zealand with a little capital, commencing as a canteen-keeper on the northern shores of Lake Taupo. Finding this diouotonous after a time, it struck him that there were no livery

stables at Napier, so he bought horses and carriages, and started in that line, driving a cab himself, which did not affect his social position. Ho was invited as usual to all the houses he was in the habit of frequenting, and sometimes astonished his fares by appearing at the same balls to which he drove them. On one of these occasions, when he had driven a judge to an “Assembly,’.' the latter was heard saying at 2 a.m.: “ Look here, major, I can’t stand this, you know. I ordered my cab at half-past 1 ; it is now 2, and there’s my cabby dancing away as if he meant to keep it up until daylight!”