A Curious Tale.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5378, 19 January 1889, Page 4

A Curious Tale.

(Per Ringarooma at Auokhvnd.) In April 1887, Mr T. Patoraun, wh ) at tho time waa carrying on business i-s an auctioneer and commission a;;;ei:t in Bourke-street East, Melbourne, startod with the avowed intention of gohu' to Gippsland for a day or two. Several rajs passed and as no word came from him, and as he did not return to his home. hU friends became alarmed, and inquiries instituted as to his whereabouts. Every inquiry was made to ascertain wh^rn lie had gone of what had become of him but all without success. Ho was known to

have had sever-) domos'ic bareavem;;nVf, and when afujr hia doparciuo it was dii-covt-red that hia business aff.iirs wen--Bi>mewhat involvt-d, it was supposed th y ha had cotnmutttid suicido, bub no'him> whatever was hi>ard of him till February, 1888. wh'Mi his wifu received a letter from him. It bore neither dato nor ud Ire.ss, hnt the postmark showed tint it came from Sou'h Africa. Tho contours ->f t!\o !• i> ■•> were quite mc >ht j r.n.t, ami ir waaoviJ^t.t that the writer r ■■>- sutFarin^ from sunn mental attltci •; The family und their friends consulted a3 to 'ho best muahs <>f getrii>;r him back to them, and eventual'y an old fiii-nd r.r.nu-d Walah voluitoerod to go to South Africa and search for Mr Puter!i"(i His l»bora were even r.vro difficult thin ho untici atcd they would when ho undertook tho trip. On his arrival in Nu<>l ho was stricken with fever, uiid whilst lying ill

was rubbed of most of the money ho Imd provided to carry him through his wanderings. Nothing daunted, he continued his work, and finally discovered Patvrson who wa* in a shite of abject poverty. Money waa waiting for them at Cape Town, but they had not the wherewithal to %'.t bhare. Nothing remained for them but to walk, and they accomplished the distance, which is said to be aoine 300 miles, on foot. Then a steamer waa obtained, and th«y reached Victoria about a week ago. MrPateison is in an exceedingly weak at;»'< j . He says that from the day he left Gippaland in April 1887. until he found himself in South Africa, in 1888, ho *as quite unconscious of what occurred, and now ho has not the remotest idea by what means ho g"t tlu're This loss of mem<>ry is somewhat extraordinary but it miy possibly haveresulted from tha "reat mental worry he underwont immediately prior to his disappearance.

A new idea in tricycling has been invented by Jan Eng ithmau who haa bte . travolltno; with his wife through Prance on a machine fitted with a bnmb io in-.sst on which a sail can bo hoiate-l. Th« wind hai aometime3 kopt him mo winy even oa upon gradea, without using the pedals.

There is in Sydney an an iont spinster of 105. She haa smoked for 50ye;«s.

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