The Bishop on the Wost Cosst.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3610, 10 September 1890, Page 2

The Bishop on the Wost Cosst.

The West Coast correspondent oft' the Chunk Km, after giving in account of the Bishop's narrow (iscapofromdrowningi goeson to say: —«Mr Fendalj caught his lordship's horse, and the journey was continued, both horsemen being periahod with cold, in their wet, garments. Wet and hniiik tho party rode southward for sloaofo miles, until—it being midnight—the darkness became so intense that they were compelled to draw win and endeavor to pick up the track on foot. The path lay aoross a bluff, but high tides had severed the con- ' neotion with the beach.. Mr Fendall therefore dismounted and attempted to find the track, leaving the Bishop to take care of the two horses. This was no pleasant duty id tbe teeth of ■f. bitter wind from tho mountains, wet olothes and an empty Btomacb. Tie Bishop, however, did not remain. idle; He brought both horses together '• a|nd squeezed in between them for warmth, anfl would have become fairly comfortable had not his eijuina' ® companions quarrelled to be comforted. The Bishop, however, with ready invention, tied their tails together and thus eked out threemia- • , jjfrably cold hours, when his companion returned after a laborious search to -fQ. announce thesuccess of the eipedition ' The episcopal hat had been wuhed ' ashore thirteen miles north pf. where . .. the aecident,ba4 occurred, .and the worthy Bishop had somevbat aiton. >' iibri (lie good folkpftbo §o|| : ;