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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2489, 31 December 1886, Page 2

A EORSIi SHOD WITH GOLD. The Argus publish** tha following anecdoto taken from the quarterly reports:—"ln the:year 1858 a sterakeeper named Donald Cameron, carrying on business at the Woolahed,'was elected first mom her of Parliament for the Ovtmii distriet, and he had the houor—uniaaain the hißt<-ry of the colony—of being driven in trimnpli from the Woolshad into Beeehworth in a gig, with a tandem ieam the loading horse of which wos'ihod with gold. .An old rusidenfc of the diatrict hm favored ua with tho following pwcltoulars of ( the occurrence :—J«sfc befora ' tho election an wjcontrio iutUviduai known as Tinker Bmwn. who had wade a M of money on tho a circus, with tents, horses, waggons,, &o. oonipleto, and. coming into Bseohwortli, with his company,- he offered to drive th» newly eleotodrasmber and supply golden horse shoca, fw the occasion. The Woolshed '-' bosses." who wore greatly elated at the succoss af the election, warmly took up Brown's idm, and they resolved, in addition to preaunt th'eir member with a diamond scarf pin, Ths horseshoes wers made by a working jeweller named Tofiold and weighed D ounces each. The team was driven from Wnolsnext to 3ee ah worth and back as far ea La Serena Hill. On reriioying the shoes of the leader (s. piebald circus horso), thoy were found to have lost l|oz. " Tinker Brown" '. died he twilled iheia tie a married d*ughter keeping a public house at Wagga TVajiga. They were in existence until a, isw years j when the .owner had" thsm' melted and tnriied into sovereigns." ~. - ,