NOT WHAT HE SEEMED.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 116, 17 October 1901, Page 3

NOT WHAT HE SEEMED.

• A well-known banker io Wellington disttiot (says the Free L»nce) vouches for the strange story of a tramp. This particular sundowner," it trataspires, is nbb of the ordinary Variety, although he has been aping their ways and adopting their methods for same time past. An excellent scholar, blessed with more money than he knows what to do with, besides possessing valuable family estates in England, he has travelled all over the world in various guises. New Zealand interested him curiously, and ! having heard bo much about it, and that it was a veritable working man's para ; dise, he decided to discard the gaib of the aristocrat for that of the tramp, and after making arrangements with his banker he sallied forth humping bluey. He took work whenever it offered, and , studied the people and the conditions Under which they lived. His experiences were not of the best, however He wa* robbed three times; at> Balolutha he was assaulted, being taken for a slyg>og spy ; at another place, where there had be en a couple of burglaries, he was arrested and oharged with vagranoy, hu\ got off. A month later he Came to the conclusion that he must look an awful scoundrel in swagger's make-up, became he was again locked up on suspicion of having fired a. etaok of hty.. As this was a most serious obarge, and likely to gain him years of gaol, he unroll»d his swag, showed his paper*, disposing his true identity, and referred the police to his banker for eorrdboration. -Inquiries confirmed bis atatements, and he'wai released. Eschewing the moles and bluchers, he returned to Wellington, and igiriow hiaold aelf egaliv-ridbinj '> the North laUnd in trii« tonriifcityle. '