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MOUNT IDA REMINISCENCES

io nit tun on Sir,—ln your issue of Thursday last you report, with illustrations, the golden wedding of Mr and Mrs R. F. Inder, of Wedderburn, and the fiftyfifth anniversary of the wedding of Mr and Mr& H. P. J. Davis, of Naseby I can well remember the day when Mr Davis married Miss King. It may interest your readers to learn that the coachman who drove the newly-mar-ried couple away for their honeymoon was Von Tempsky’s bugler. Mr William Delaney. He told me once that when on sentry-go in the bush one night he had just time to sound the alarm after hearing one Maori say to another, “Tomahawk the bugler.” When I went first to Naseby in 1874 there were said to be 20 hotels in Hogburn Gully. At that time the word “ cocktail ” meant one who was lacking in moral courage. The modern meaning of the term was introduced into Naseby, for the first time. I believe, by Judge Wilson Grey, of the District Court, who. I have heard came to New Zealand from California The story goes that when the judge was sitting in the dining room of the Victoria Hotel waiting for breakfast be fore going away in the coach he said to the Irish girl who was oreparing the meal. '* I feel mv copppers a bit hot this morning: I think I will have a cocktail” The girl looked at him in amazement and said in the name of goodness what that was The judge told the girl howto concoct the drink She went awav into the bar for the ingredients and placing them on the table in front of the judge, said: “There is vour stuff and vou can cock vour own tail.” Not long before she died in Dunedin, an old woman over 70. I asked her if that story was true. She just laughed bid did not deny it. In mv time sweet Hogbiirn was the loveliest village of the Maniototo Plain, where health and plenty cheered the labourin'* swains I am etc.. John Law Mav 29

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23514, 31 May 1938, Page 7

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MOUNT IDA REMINISCENCES Otago Daily Times, Issue 23514, 31 May 1938, Page 7

MOUNT IDA REMINISCENCES Otago Daily Times, Issue 23514, 31 May 1938, Page 7

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