THE ADVENTURES OF A QUEEN'S MESSENGER.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 263, 12 May 1888, Page 4

THE ADVENTURES OF A QUEEN'S MESSENGER.

Tuio l Times' publishes the following communication from a Queen's messenger, giving- a vivid account of the severity of the weather on the Continent : — 1 Leaving- .Berlin in a sleeping carriage on the night of Mai eh 2nd, 1 was awakened about b a.m. thenc.\t morning", and ionnd the tiain had stopped between J»rombcigand l>h\schau, and about 320 miles from Berlin. The conductor came and told mo that the tiain was snowed up. It was blowing a hunicane, and snowing so much as to make the aii quite daik. For about seven houis we lcmained jilantis, and the getting deeper e\eiy moment. I had eaten nothing since 8 p.m. the day before but a bit ot bicad, and the conducloi f-aitl that nothing- could be got unless we sent r o tlie neaicsL \illage. Theie w eie about (en peasants on the line, snatching away at the snow with picks, which w etc of about as much use an toothpicks. I bnbed one ot these logo and -<a; what lie could get, ;md in oouiso ot tune he bi ought .mhiiu black biead and Blut-wui-t (blood-sausage), but this dainty duo not iceomincnil itself lo eveiy stomach. Atlei a while the ii\e or six passe.igtii in the carnage held a council, and all ic-ohed on staying where they unc. i gut out ol the ti.im on tlie lee side, walked along as well a^> i could, and made out that to wmdwaid the snow toiinula wall lialt as high as the umia^es, while to lecwaid 'A the tiain tin. --team and licat horn (lie engine had u (diced the snow to watei, which in turn had iio/en, so that the w heel- of the eaiiiage- weie lode-din solid ice. 1 lelt like an Ax tic e\ploier. The tiam wa-> la-t like Lhti pictuies one v-< d to ouo hi the Kiebu-> and Tcuoi,hsU John Fiankbn's ship' , and looked like icmaining thuo till .-I >i ing-. I then le-olml to send «d once ioi a sledge to take me to some habitation. Fiom this the of her pa>-,-uigii- tiled to di-suade mo, and that the} would -top w heic they were ; but when twooi tluee skd'ji - iimal, they all lolloped \n\ evunple We ntie halt lilted out ot the tiain. The cold and foi cc ot the snow--totm \hil, "•'! mul as ahno-L to blind v-, and in about hall-en-hour w<, got to a (ulir/iit. whcie thtie w.io bai >\y standiii'j luom tor all ot Un with our hand luguage, and nothing to rat. A-d the pledge- could not lake us to ihe ncaie^t -tation, we then sLntcd on loot, and llounilcii.d about in hie like gee-o on a common m the d.n k 10l about .i mile oi moie, the snow being lUMih, up to oui ni'ddte and the cold \eiy gioat. ! had exhenie diihcult^ in keeping nr cv on tiic mm eairymg my bag ot de-paU'he-, i-te. We then got lo L ifkowl/, wt t thiough, ami chilled to tlie bone. \t La.-koMt'- wi wailed lor two houis in a mi^-eiable -•die d atu nte, and then took the tiain toi (iiaiiden/, a -mall town on the \ i-tul.i ti'vu ihe Poh-h iiontiei, wheie theie wa,- a (Iclliu inn. and wo 12 ot -uppi i and a bid. \Vo wcie at (Jiaudcn ' ab ,ut t hn t v houi-, and at la-t got awa>, .utei many ilela\-, to the JUi--ian hont lei , whu h w e eio-icd at \\ en/bololl. TiieieWii- no ti.un till ne\t morning, no L had to deep in a ' ioiiette-/nninci " en chc lloor botw ( t n tw o I'oh-h .)(. \ - . -, one of w horn coughed all nmht ami especloiated with -ui'h \igoui and iui|<ai ti.dit) that I evpectid to lind at da\ light that he had bi'-[)<it teied m> lur coat and ing-. ISe\t morning we lett tor ht. I'ctei-buir; |>^ lv -low tiain, and 1 am quit toi a -light cold and son no-e and c.a, which weiea little tio-t bitttn. Out jioor devil wn- .-o bad Horn the e\po-uic that lie had lo lemain at (iiauden/. It l- baicl} a month ,-inco 1 \\ii- Miouod up in llungai^, anil underweni.a t-iii'iku c\j)Ciicii((\ though not -o -e\eie. 1 con-ideL m^-elt lucky to luxe -a\ed my de-[iatclic-."