CONGRATULATIONS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1537, 8 January 1887, Page 2

CONGRATULATIONS.

| TO THE KDITOR. Sir, —I see by your issue of the 6th inst. that our rruto.nl friend, the local bailiff, had a very narrow squeak at Milford beach the other day. 1 think we all should congratulate him on his rairacu'ous escape, although he has paid me an official visit more than once, bat for all that 1 should not like to see him made into fish bait. I interviewed him yesterday in regard to the occurrence, when he toll me he never thought be had so many friends. He says that since the account appeared in the papers •very one wants to shake hands with him, but he also told me confidentially that if he bad taken a passage to lerra Del Fuego on board that fish be thinks his friends would have been far more numerous. I think he waa not far wrong there. I asked bim what kind of fish or marine animal he thought it was, and he said h<i lettered it to be a species of the antiwarrantibas family,but j that his friend Mr H—■—p thought it was an octopus summonsii evadum, bat of course that will always remain an inscrutable mystery, Mr H—— p says the last-named fish is a species of shark. While talking of sharks I advised our friend to confine his attentions to the land sharks, and leave the marine monsters alone. He replied, •• You bet," and thanked me. He says a bailiff's life is not all beer and skittles, since now the fish even turned against him. I think I must now wish our friend " A Happy New Year," and conclude. Prom an old friend in adversity. Jonah. Whale's Inlet, Mediterranean. ■ <> ■" ■ INFORMATION WANTED. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —For the sake of deciding an argument can you, oir an j of the readers of your valuable paper, inform me what was the date of the excessively hot day (a Wednesday I think) that we had in the early part of last year ?—I am, etc., Rbfkrkk.