A LITTLE MISUNDERSTANDING.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 38, 17 January 1874, Page 9

A LITTLE MISUNDERSTANDING.

A FUNNY little misuqderstanding occurred on board the steamer Golden Age at Port Chalmers on Saturday last. The steamer had been engaged to convey the Governor and those who were with him, including the Hon. the Premier and Mrs Vogel, and His Honor the Superintendent, on board the Mikado, and the Custom House boat ■was ordered to attend the steamer to take the party from the" one Tossel to the other. Now the name of oue of the crew of the Golden Age happened to be James Fergusson, and when the Custom House boat ranged alongside, the coxswain sang cut,- "Hi, Jimmy Fergusscn, citch hold of this painter." Much to the confusion of tbe coxswain the response to his call came from an unexpected quarter ; the Governor heard the cry, coupled with his own familiar cognomen, and casting ceremony to the winds ru-he'd to the side of the steamer and seized the proffered rope, and then recovering himself without an effort, he quietly handed it to his abashed namesake, who was standing at his «lbow.