A COLONIAL ADVENTURER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1398, 29 September 1885, Page 3

A COLONIAL ADVENTURER.

An ex-New Zealand colonist, has just won for himself distinction in a new line. Mr Charles Henry Boydell, hailing from the land of ferns, having squandered a considerable patrimony, has been using his colonial wite in order to supplement his income, but in methods so irregular as to have brought himself within the meshes of the law. Perhaps had he not flown at Mr Gladstone, bis excursions in humbler fields might have passed with impunity, if not with profit. But in an evil hour this chevalier d’ Industrie assuming the soubriquet of “ Irish Tim,” having formed a somewhat erroneous estimate of the mettle of the ex-Premier, informed that gentleman by letter from Vienna that if not forthwith provided with the sum of £3OO he would incontinently stay the statesman. With even more detestable spirit he bad under similar threats endeavoured to extort money from a lady by inculpating her husband in a shameful crime, “Your husband,” he wrote, “ is a thorough scoundrel. He has deceived a young girl, and sent her to Vienna without any money. She was therefore forced to become a bad girl. lam her brother, and if you or your husband do not lend me £SO I will come to Chiswick and murder you both. —lrish Tim.” To another lady this distinguished colonist wrote: "I am in possession of information respecting a very great crime committed by your husband. I don’t wish to reveal that crime, which is one of the most serious kind, and in order to preserve your tranquility of mind I will take upon m„> self, being pear, to take no further gteps against your husband if you send me £lO or £2O, If you don’t send this sum by the 20th of May, I will reveal that crime.” This brilliant career, on which the New Zealander bud only fairly started, has been brought to an abrupt ending, and he is at present doing six months’ probation in an Austrian gaol preparatory to expulsion from the country. The immediate cause of his arrest was his flashing about a deposit receipt from a New Zealand bank for £2779, which was regarded by the Austrian authorities as spurious. That be has a considerable sum of money still to his credit appeared, but there being some restrictions on the drawing of it, he alleged that he was driven by hi. necessities to fall back on his Colonia 1 ingenuity for the purpose of raising the wind’