CHRONICLES.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 12, 2 May 1868, Page 3

CHRONICLES.

(Communicated.) \ Chapter I. 1. And it came to pass in the fifteenth year of the reign of Queen Victoria, third month, and eleventh day of the month, there sojourned in the city of Sydney a Prince, which caused great joy and gladness, for the Queen, his mother, lived in the hearts of the paople. 2. And it was soon noised abroad that a son of the lineage of the royal house of Guelph had come into these parts, and the inhabitants from all the surrounding districts hastened to the city to behold the young man, which, report said, was fair and comely to look upon. 3. It was evening, and drawing towards the twelfth hour ; the Prince had retired to his couch, and was meditating on all he had seen and heard that day, and congratulating his royal mother on the many faithful subjects and devoted hearts that were beating for her in this distant land. 4. On the twelfth, after hi 3 morning repast and devotions (foahe'was one who feared God and eschewed evil), the Royal Visitor arranged himself in gorgeous apparel and fine linen ; he was that day to honor with his company the homo of those who go down to sea in ships, and do business in great waters. 5. Sometime after the sun had passed the meridian, the governor and officers of State, the judges and rulers, with their wives, waited upon the Royal Stranger to escort him to the place set apart for their _ entertainment and amusement. 6. Between two and three hours later the Prince, with the governor's wife and one of the chief men of the household, were walking along the banks of the river, when lo ! the report of a pistol was heard. The Prince cried with a loud voice, and fell to the ground ; he that was with him turned round, and there stood a man in the act of firing, but the pistol missed fire. 7. The assembled multitude who stood about a stone-cast from where the Princo and his companions were walking, immediately rushed upon the man and would have torn him in pieces like beasts of prey, had not the watchmen of the city taken possession of him and conveyed him to prison. 8. The fallen Prince was raised from the ground, and conveyed with great care to the house of the governor, where ho was attended by his Physicians and friends. 9. The news of the outrage spread with great rapidity, and the city was overwhelmed with grief. Mothers mourned and maidens' wept, and the men wist not what to do ; they, gathered at the corner of the streets and talked of the sad calamity ; one old man lifted up his voice and • cried, Woe unto this city, for without are thieves ami robbers, and within are murderers ; woe unto this people, whom all the nations of the earth will curse, who will point the finger of scorn at them and say, They invited their Prince within their gates and slew him. JBut there were others who remembered the God of their fathers, and prayed to him in secret that he would not take away the life of the young man, the beloved son of their good Queen. 10. Early in the morning of the thirteenth, there was gladness in the hearts of the citizens, for they had heard the joyful news that the Prince was not wounded unto death. 11. At ten o'clock in the same day, the malefactor was arraigned in the hall of justice for the crime he had committed. He stated that an epistle had been sent from his fatherland, appointing ten ineii to execute the Prince ; that by so doing it might strike terror into the hearts of the Queen and her ministers, who had so long oppressed their land. The ten cast lots who should do the deed, and the lot fell on him. All who heard him were amazed at his boldness, and they whispered one to another, surely he is possessed with a devil. The culprit was taken bapk to prison. 12. Oa the fjfj&eeatijk day of the samo Hjouth..(b6>ttg t^jc Sij^MJash) prayers were pffeied up the restoration to health of the Prince; and there was great rejoicing in the -^-different places ho had sojourned, m.