A SELL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2245, 16 March 1886, Page 2

A SELL.

During the festivities of " settling" at the Rutland last night Mr A. J. Parsons took the opportunity of presenting Mr P. F. Tnnorcd, the owner of the winner of the Wanganui Derby of 1880, with a valuable gold watch .and chain, The gift was onclosed in a very handsome new case, and the presentation was made tho occasion of a highly eulogistic speech, in which the recipient's sportsmanlike conduct was praised to the skies, and the butter laid on so thick that Mr Tancred ftirJy ' under (;ho unexpected hqniirs Jieajjecl uppn his Jieacl, ' ifjie (jbnbrs dfenjc his Health in sparlijmg wipe, and gave him all the musical 1 honors, (jifring yjjicji tin)e the face of the recipient was a study, fi3 he half unponjpioiisly oxamined the magnificent gift for which lie was vainly trying to guess a reason for its presentation, find suitable words to xoturn thankß in anyway, At last the truth dawned upon him; he had been soldi It was his own ticker and chain, which he had left at tho local watch doctor's to be 1 blistered or fired, or something |jljch the boys had rung in on him! 'For a moment $ darjf crossed tlie victim's brow; tut one glance at the mirth-con-faces of the company, tvho were also just learning the nature, 1 of the ''pre-

sentation, sent him off in fits of laughter, and no one enjoyed the joke bettor than the victim after the discovory of it had passed off. The inimitable Thatcher was " had" worse than the abovo at Hokitika, ob he stood a champagne supper to allow of a valuable gold watch being presented to him. What he did get was a gorgeous case with a toy watch insido it. He never forgaye the perpetrators, who, howevor, managed to survive his anger.—Herald,