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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2338, 5 July 1887, Page 3

Great distress is reported in Newfoundland. An Knglish farmer saw n number of huntsmen coming on horseback, lie did not want them to go over one of his fields, because the crop was in such a condition that it would be injured, and perhaps destroyed, by the tramp of the horses. So be put his hired boy at the gate and told him not to open it. On came the hunters, and commanded him to open the gate. He refused. They ottered him money. He would not take it. Then a noble-looking man rode up and said—“My boy, lam the Duke of Wellington, ami I command you to open the gate.” The boy took off bis bat and said—“ lam sure the Duke of Wellington would not wish me to disobey orders. I must keep this gate shut; no one to pass through but with my master's express permission.” The duke was pleased, and lifting his hat, said—“l honour the man or hoy who can bo neither bribed nor frightened into doing wrong. With an army of such soldiers I could conquer the world,'