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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 16 April 1910, Page 6

gest is 'the sending post haste fr.mi Wellington of a patrol of moiiuW men, while all local corps have passed over. It appears that Sir Joseph Ward asked for volunteers from the Dominion Scouts of Wellington, and five enthusiasts respondtu. and wer e immediately despatched ;o Palmerstou. No volunteers wore even asked for from the Mou.nlr-1 Rifles of this district, who are more fitted in every way to engage in a search of this kind, and it seems an extraordinary thing that they should have thus been passed over in favour of the estimable gentlemen from tr.e city, who must be badly m want of equestrian knowledge, and whose innocence of the lay of the country is quite proverbial. "The.newlv-arrived disciples of theimmortal Holmes started brilliantly yesterday. They were responsible for the Seandia street affair, which created such excitement and so much amusement at five o'clock last might. An excited Scout dashed so wildly up to the police station at that hour that everyone thought he had got some valuable information. When he had sufficiently controlled his excitement to articulate, he informed the pol;. 1 " and the world generally that they Kl "got Mm bailed up 'in a shed ne:ir the river. There was no mistake Hi is time, for a Dominion Scout in full uniform had brought the startling information. "Although heavy rain was pouring down at the time, a crowd of cyclist followed the police motor to be in at the death. The old fellmongery was the scene of the struggle-to-be. :ir.l it was carefully surrounded. Then there apepared" from 'the whare tin form of a mild-looking individual who wondered what all the fuss was about. He was a carpenter, workup at the place, . and had innocently poked his head out of the windowwhen a Dominion.Scout happened to be atoont. That embryonic Holmes immediately scented a due. and wasted no time in getting to the police station. The return of the motor-:>a v was hailed with much merriment, in- 1 , the distrusted chauffeur. clbow ; n<r Irs way through, the crowd. exclannVi: 'Let me get somewhere where I can swear.'"