TROUBLES OF A DEBTOR.
A riio^i thriving marrative J%mejM Spm Mana#attt; : ; Mr Ross, tfie*co_^r »ctor, for-^e' launching of the ydrabacf^ww, a short time back, beseiged on the wreck by his own workmen, who promised taking their wages out of his own proper person, as they could not get them out of his pocket. Entrenched on the wreck, he laughed .at^his J«oße.d,4yirsuers. MaLtai^hflff-. ..,. ever becoming sedouj", Captains Holmwood and GFibbo^j - jtogethi&r /with- jQ6nstable Purcell. proceeded to the citadel taiatervißw^toryirigonrAiifiist. lie "wm '■■ ■■ invisible, but, after sometime, he was discovered m a railway carriage, among __ the cargo. Jt was a well ohesen. position, ■ '" roomy bnt btrong arid' ii *vw '-with difficulty that he WO*, itiftftced- A toMLa«vp Q the stronghold; /. However,? JWOWfted byf; the police though rows of indignant creditors he left *R6 : uo6ftdfn«nd after some promises made .by the debtor, but scorned by the mi«ti>ifsting oaen, hq was allowed tb depart foj i'oxUm. , r Mv f■/ Koss, thajcontractor, will flertaipjy not iookbwk upon fthis episode aatpnefotf^ the pfeasanteit of hia' life. Ib ,i$ b^.^ enough to owe money and to have a blanctlyiimportunate dun.' dogging jpne'a ;/• footsteps, but" to be bailea up on a jwreck, with ferocipus creditors; glaring at one like wolves, and thirsting to , horsewhip one, must b&, a most .painful , sensation. .-■>■, (<,*.<■.■■.*
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 653, 18 March 1879, Page 2
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212TROUBLES OF A DEBTOR. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 653, 18 March 1879, Page 2
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