A Tale of the Sea.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3113, 26 January 1889, Page 3

A Tale of the Sea.

: stbiiy,v\veir autbcntioated, but jßfcicb reads more like a description v "ofthe olfl buccaneering times,-comes '.'.-■' .to England from Nova Scotia, :The • captain :ol; a ship hailing from '-. that ■ colony states that during a terrible hurricwo his vessel foundered and became a total wreck off one of the Turks and Caicos Islands. This group lies some 400 miles to the north-wost of Jamacia, and. the Government is administered under orders from that' dependency. Q'he morning after thtt>wreek Captain -Jacobseu reports in all seriousness .' that 200 naked negroes charged on the crew of the Bliip, threatened them with death, and plundered everything of value, Tho sailors, at first taken by surprise by such an unlooked for attack, soon, however, armed themselves with muskets and pistols, and drove off the savages. But everyone ', will want to know from the ComjjMißsioner of the Caicos Islands how ffßs these rascally pirates are enabled v *> to'threaten with death and to plunder i shipwrecked marinetß. His jurisdiction should extond over tho whole group, and unless Captain Jacobsen's story should turn out to be a newspaper canard, it is his duty to mete out punishment' to these negro wreckers. alS~chance : : ; According to the New York Sun, lord Sackville has beeu offerod what Americans call a "tine chance." The übiquitous American s|iowman Dons, who has just opened a dime museum on Eighth Avcnu?, Hew York, has been aftor his lordship, This is what theirrepressiblo Doris says in a letter to Lord Sackville: In view of the fact that you are now, without /toaption, the moat prominent man IRtaerican politics, and that your lordship will soon be recalled to your home duties, I beg, in my capacity as : manager of the greatest museum in the world, respectfully to make your lordßhip the following-offer, so that yon may be afforded an opportunity to properly place yourself before (he public previous to your Free speech is my motto. I will pay your lordship the sum of 2000dols per week for holding two levees of two hours' duration for one week—two if you prefer them-said levees to bo held daily in my museum. I will pay for your lordship and suite while here. An immediate reply will oblige your lordship's most obedient Bervant, John B. Doris." The Now Yorkers took this as a joke, but a Sun reporter was assured by Mr John B.'Doris that he "meant busi- ,, ness,"