Veiled in Mystery.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 609, 19 May 1891, Page 3

Veiled in Mystery.

Ths large crowd who had gathered at the wharf on Sunday afternoon had their curiosity aroused by what appeared to be a very mysterious affair. Constable Partly was observed, to go up to Sergeant Carlyon and whisper something to him, and the Sergeant went straight to the launch Snark and got aboard. Constable Law had gone to the side of the boat, and from some communication he had received he hurriedly went up town. He, however, returned with nothing more important than a cloak to cover the Sergeant’s uniform from the lovely spray that was thrown off from the crests cf the waves in ths bay. Someone hinted that the Sergeant was going to look af'er Captain Holdaway, and see the party safely away from Gisborng with the odd shillings that had been collected , for the Salvation war, Others thought that it mighthave to do with the departure of an elderly man who was seen to be going off, and who had been principal in a domestic quarrel on the wharf a few days previously, when his young and gay better half handled him unmercifully with an umbrella and other implements of torture. But all looked so peaceful, and the Sergeant wore such a sunny smile notwithstanding that he was going to face the furies of the ocean, that curious people equid not make it out. It subsequently transpired that the Sergeant was only going out to the big steamer to interview Inspector Emers n, who was aboard, but was too sick or something to venture ashore I Here is an opportunity for the Opposition journals to lash out with fury and rend our new Inspector in pieces 1 They are so fond of barking at the heels of some one that this is too good a chance to be lost, Sule 'im up, boys! The Inspector is an officer who has many times been conspicuous for cool judgment and courageous conduct. The cool judgment took the thing in hand this time. Sea-sick-ness, like love, levels all ranks.