A SAILOR'S ESCAPADE.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13693, 7 October 1916, Page 6

A SAILOR'S ESCAPADE.

EXCITING EXPERIENCE. AVANGANUI, October 5. A sailor named'Donnelly, belonging to the barque ilanurewa, had an adventurous time yesterday. He told liis story to a pressman tluis: "I was doing twenty-eight days in the 'jug' for refusing duty—or sometiling like that. Yesterday a copperMai' something-or-other, a decent sorttakes me down to the Manurewa just before she sails. ! says to 3lac: 'Have you linished with me'' He says: 'As soon' as the beat goes.' I says; '"Well, good-bye, I'm off to Sydney as a passenger,' The copper says: 'Good luck to you,' and the skipper starts to grin, -"So I says to myself, 'AH right, you wait,' and when the boat started out between the moles, I liops over the side and starts to swim ashore,

"When I got there, the skipper shouts out: 'You've got three more days to do vet.'

" '.Hope you have a good trip,' I sings out back. 'The pleasure's mutual.'

"Decent little' town this," he coir eluded. "I'll got ; , shore job to-mor-row, and stay here for a while."