MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 9414, 3 June 1882, Page 3

MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

An amusing: item has. just reeched us (says the Oam! " Mail). At the close of last session Mr S pergh t,„ W. H.R., arrive d in Napier, on his way to his home at the Thames. He is a gre? teetotaller, and the brotherhood thought it most appropriate to appoint a few of their number to wait upon that gentleman to thank him for his efforts in Parliament for the furtherance of the cause which they have espoused. The deputation accordingly waited upon Mr Speight, and, in flattering terms, referred to his assid’ous champion* ship of what in their est-mation ifl l the greatest humanising agency of theme. Mr Speight listened with eye« agUnv with delight, and occcasionally appropriately acknowledged tHa<compliments; as-'they fell fast and thick from, the lips of the deputation. But just at this moment another member of .thebrotherhood appeared on the scene. He fixed his gaze on the recipient of the compliments and exclaimed, ‘He Speight?,../-Why,-! saw.’ him drink a glass of whisky yesterday !’ Nor was this accuser wrong, we fear, for the gentleman deputat’.onised was not Mr Speight, the celebrated teetotaller,: but the portly Mr Speight, the Dunedin brewer, who bed been on a business; . visit to Napier, /~ m • •