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Temuka Leader, Issue 164, 23 July 1879, Page 3

1 An English tourist fell madly in love e with a Scotch vivamlior at Balaklava, 3 and bored her with his addresses. The , young woman no longer able to endure - it, ordered him the door. After many i a vain attempt to overrule her objections, '! the tourist determined to commit suicide, j but, in presence of the great events ' were being - played out, in no paltry ' manner. Having first bequeathed his fortune to the vivandicre, he caused a : deep hole to be dug, in which lie placed ‘ twenty pounds of powder : over this ; excavation a slab was laid, md upon it, > the rejected one, cigar in mouth, took ■ his seat. Ho tranquilly finished his ■ weed, and then applied the expiring embc.is to the magazine below. An ‘ explosion followed, and two minutes : later a charred mass descended from the .heavens and tel! into the port —a mass ■ which the astonished British seaman recognised as a human body, and pro. ceede’d to fish from the water. There was a cry of “ A man from heaven ?” Some declared that he had, been kicked out of the sun, and others that an aeronaut had come to grief. However, the man came round, and the vivandicre, touched by the proof of affection, capitulated.