KATIKATI.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XV, Issue 2361, 21 November 1888, Page 4

KATIKATI.

?BOM A|T OCCABIOyAL COEBEBPQKDENT The Orphan bad a nijoe^trip last Saturday to - JPhom peon's tpa<jk, *as • KOci <S)mfi along, ti»l(ee that* iai»fis. one ,had -met with an accident, 5 and it wai necessary for * spriogpj rt and horae .tOvgo and bring thel sufferer d«wn for treatment, by the Doctor. But lo, and bebojd you, although it was undewtood that aseriOßß«ccident DAd happened it was some considerable. Tim befrw • volunteer -ipp^ajred $1 the scene. But , the- Orp&ir (Who ir wejl , known to be always lretjdy £©Js anything that turns up in that, wayfs* i at once goi.bia turn out ifcady and started for the seat oi war. *By the { time be got to the Junction H6tel he felt dry, and called in an dbadia long . ■ beer and chipped a volunteer assistant, who ga?a him th 6 ide*_thafc b^ could drive right up tOitb»BC^pe of: fiction, from info#m4tiun,-djetived from your own correspondent?* <hdflget— ,• more powe> td him. After* start was made progress was favourable until the Orphan arrived at the end of the track above Andrews', when he found : that the road earner to a dead stop with a large box at the end ther^^L "Tfais will never do," sajs ika Orphan, "as the paper says; wgmm drive a buggy along the road to where tha contractor li¥o«i" «o bete [goes." And applying the. whip he got l^is old rook to go about fifty yards furtlieT,' when ho had to cotae.to a dead stop, as the road was impractibler tf or wheeled traffic. Aa j luck [would bate it a pack saddle was found at the box aforesaid, and it was aecided i to leave the cart behind and put the pacjc laddie on the horsey, whi^wto: at once done, and good progress was then made j|ntil $p? catnp ¥fjfs"»»lrived at. The Orphan Tiad tljen the mortification to find that-tHe sick man was. one of thoße who bad indulged top freely at the afoits the day beforb, and odlv re^uirjedii slifl glass of grog to ma^e liim fetjraight, which had taken place long' bel^re the Orphan' piit in atf ajipeiirancei On his arrival at the scene of operations he fonudiixteen men at work, / <?oxtra^o^%s K^llEi is W*sdlendi| JDlr¥labQur|;ldJ Borte' word, don't some of them sw^at for at for dtkwg Jtbrough to Te Afo^^ a buggy, as the Orphan saystj-Wflf on aartfrii itbetf half;a/tfi|B |of the oiitside of ;$m traclr mn^|df. As from present appearances the road cominencfafaopb^e t^aod ; jrhere it endls i« a matter pf no consequence. The Qontractorsai present have about If* imi^ of ;tbe roiid* ffinsli^d in a workmanlike manner, but what good it wM ib f Ike du^ct bard to say. Ifthe Bame amount had been spent in> wiping t)^ ;«) d f° ad (up past the Junction Hotel) there wenld .beent sodm^reasonable chance of a good baggy tra<|k. So much fqr tbatjot.; But, what must be saM about the retoiir of the Orphan, who, to tell the truth, fait rather amall. At hie arrival |at W Junction Hotel many tei^ janous where the inquiries as to the sick man Imt all the i^t^^^-^Wiw you giving us?" But there is no doubt it wat a cruel sell to start a n)an on a bad road with a steady okUorae, that would not go out of a f ttneral paw, to find attend. c|^|oWbey that he had been maiJ^TSS&>fE. But no matter although fun wasppW at the Orphan it is a good aigi^ of the times when we have a mau amongst Us wlw &s rt*4s aoA wi^lw« p> turn out whenever need calls. But lam sorry to say that at his arrival *tsbe Uretata the Orphan -mat so many friends th#£ he got a«R€Ue under the influence of John Barlycorn, and rather made a fool of himself . But no matter great praise is due to the man who undertook an arduous journey for the purpose of relieving a fellow creature