AN UNPLEASANT SURPRISE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1194, 1 August 1911, Page 5

AN UNPLEASANT SURPRISE.

£ . MAN DISCOVERS AN OLD WELL IN THE DARK. Truth i» nnl always found at the bottom of I'lio well—sometimes it is a very different thing, especially if it is an old forgotten concealed well. Apropos of this a workman engaged, on the extension of tho Wellington Girls' College had occasion recently to go under the old school in connection with the gas pipes. Ho. was a long time gone, and when at , length he did emerge into the light of day he was far from his usual stalwart self. On being questioned he told a curious tale. Owing to the floor being too near the ground he had had to creep under the building on his hands and knee?. Suddenly he lurched forward and to his horror found r.o resting place for his handshe was half into a brick-lined hole in the ground, and but. for his luck, might very easily have fallen into it before he knew where ho was. On a search being mado willi lanterns it , was found that there was an old long-disused brick troll about 20ft. deep, with mud and water at the bol'loin, without , nucstinn tho well of the old military hospital which at one time stood on the site—then known a> Thorndoii Flat; Tho contractors mii'l , have built the school without talcing the precaution lo fill in the well. A .similar incident took place some time ago in the house of Cautrun Johnson at Gulrilc's Hrao whore one board of the floor gave away and the leg of a grand piano disappeared from view. On invostitmfion it wns found that theie was <ui old well beneath the door.