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South Canterbury Times, Issue 6265, 11 July 1890, Page 4

The following incident took place a Napier recently on the visit of the steamer Monowai: —As the last launch was leaving for the Spit a well-known footballer remembered that he had forgotten his dog on board, and despite, the restraining hands of the officers of the ship and of the law, disappeared into the bowels of the Monowai. After an anxious interval a commotion was heard below, and presently a medium-sized athlete, closely followed by a large-sized bull dog, shot suddenly down the gangway amidst vociferous applause. The admiration of the launch passengers became boundless when the adventurous youth gained sufficient breath to explain that the lamp trimmer had. tied up his dog seven decks below, and that he and the dog bad travelled over all those decks in the interval. A WATCH LOST AND FOUND, Mr Willard J, Parker, proprietoi of the Mineral Spring Stock and Pasture Farm, at Junction City, Hans., writes in regard to a Waterbury watch: —Four years ago I had a boy working for me, and some time in August 1885, he traded for a Waterbury, and boylike, he scratched his initials on the back case. Ho lost the watch in the hayfield the second day after trading for it, and could not find it. A few days since my little girl while raking hay saw something glisten: when the horse and rake had passed over, she ran to it, and behold, it was a Waterbury. She brought it to me, and there were the scratched initials, proving it to bo the watch that was lost four • years ago. Since the watch was lost I have made hay on the ground , three times, and have . had three prairie .fires >pass oyer the watch; yet when my daughter brought the watch to me, I wound it up, and was surprised to see it begin running, and still more so to find'that it keeps accurate time. lam carrying the watch myself. The crystal was cracked, and the case somewhat tarnished, but otherwise none the worse for wear. The watch is quite a treasure in the family. The children each want to wind the "ticker” as they call it. • [8