SINGULAR VAGARIES.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1487, 14 January 1882, Page 2

SINGULAR VAGARIES.

What might have been rather a good going nine days wonder, has just been nipped in the bud after doing little more than 24 hours duty. Names and circumstances connected with the affair having been freely used, indeed, made subject-matter for newspaper paragraphing, reticence on our part would Berve no good purpose, the more so as we are in a position to give the denoument to what, at one time, was esteemed to be a tragiclooking event. It appears Mr D. Goombes, of the firm of Newell and Co., aerated water manufacturers, Ngaruawahia, addressed rather a singular communication to the employe" in charge of his business, enclosing a sum of £22, and adding that before the letter reached its destination the writer would be "no more." The thing appeared sufficiently serious to warrant the circumstance being reported to the police, by whom enquiries were immediately set on foot. The missing man, or rather, as it has now turned out, the truant, was ascertained to have left the Waikato Hotel on Thursday morning, where he had resided the previous night. Beyond that nothing was heard of him until last night, when he turned up in Hamilton, having in the meantime been wandering about in the neighborhood of Ohaupo. Although no explanation of this singular conduct has been given, we are led to understand it is not attributable to the immoderate use of spirituous liquor. Meanwhile he has been taken charge of by the police.