AN EVENTFUL CAREER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2115, 23 October 1890, Page 4

AN EVENTFUL CAREER.

Lord Sbahhon, who has just been recovered from the West Canadian wilderness, 1 is the hero of a strange eventful story. Seven years ago, jas Viscount Boyle, he found life in that crack corps the Rifle Brigade beyond the means his family could afford to allow him. Hearing of the land boom at Winnipeg he_went there with his brother in ( tbq jkope of getting quickly rich. The 1 two Boyles got hold of a Campbell, a son of'the Duke of Argyll, and set up a bank at Winnipeg which in a short time went' where it might have been expected to go. After ( tjhat the young Viscount set off by himself through Canada, farming, trapping, hunting, fisbing.enjoying life generally, and working like a horse. He began by discarding his title, and ended by losing his identify, in 1887, in.midwinter| he conceived the idea of gross ing the, Rockies into Columbia, and in spite of the most experienced trappers set off. Prom that day no one ever heard of him on the Eastern side of the range. Soon after, his father dving, there was hue and cry for the eldest son. Detectives travelled all over Canada, and traced him to the pass in the Rockies, and there had to give him up. Newspapers were filled with advertisements, which produced numerous answers from impostors, but none from the real Simon Pure, At last, by some accident, the young man was found working away quietly raising cattle and horses and pigs on a farm he had bought in the depths Q? Columbia. “Never wyote home,”,he said. “ Always was bad correspondent. Like the life. Never mind whether it pays me or not; that’s my business.” Full of pluck and enterprise, and very industrious the young man sedihs to have been—likewise slightly eccentric; for which reason on bearing that he is a relative of the great Sir Boyle Roche of famous memory one is not surprised. —New Zealand Times.