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Temuka Leader, Issue 2342, 12 April 1892, Page 3

Tim Whistler. —Who of our readers that visited the N.Z. and South Seas Exhibition at Dunedin two years ago, does not remember " The Whistler " the young man who stood near the Dresden piano stall, and warbled popular melodies fco admiring crowds ? "lie, poor fellow—-lie had lost, aii arm aiid'a leg by a railway accident in New South Wales—is now in Melbourne as the following from an exchange will show " A well-known figure in Melbourne has just been removed. This was a young man with only one arm and one leg, who possessed remarkable powers as a whistler. He never asked anyone for help,; he would walk up the street on his crutches, select his, pitch and commence " I Dreamt." After giving a couple of selections, he would move on to another spot without passnig round the hafc. U aayono felt charitably disposed they walked up while he was whistling and pub their contribution into his hand ; he would put it into his pocket without looking at it or thanking the donor. The pour whistler has been arrestof as a. vagrant."-—Southern Standard,