A LUCKY CONSTABLE.
Ail Irish constable lias been able to show that Mr Gilbert’s fame us song is not entirely founded on fact. Two years ago, Miss Ellard, the owner of a fine estate at Newton-lUlani, was fired at, but, fortunately, both she and her coachman escaped the ballet of the assasin. Shortly afterwards police protection wa« aflorded Miss Ellard, two constables being drawn for that purpose from the New Fallas station. One of them, named fthcoliy, a fine bdlow, acquitted himsclfso well that Miss Ellard resolved to render his protection a permanent duty, Ihe sub-constable is now the husband of a beautiful wife, and landed proprietor, with an income of some £IO,OOO a year. For the future, we presume the malcontents will 6re at Sheehy, instead of his wife, but nevertheless the ‘ fooroe’ has come into high favor since the story became known, and there is quite a rush of recruits,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1059, 25 January 1883, Page 3
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152A LUCKY CONSTABLE. Temuka Leader, Issue 1059, 25 January 1883, Page 3
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