MANGOREI.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12925, 2 August 1905, Page 6

MANGOREI.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

The usual fortnightly meeting of tluv Band of Hope was held in Uie. school-/ room on the 2(s tli inst. There Aya^ a good attendance, and the programme though short was evidently r.iuch appreciated. The; Rev. IT. Daniel's 1 , humorous recitation and Mr A. Wells/s "The Jackdaw of Bheims." were the best items, though all ihf? performers, acquitted., themselves- creditably, and were accorded hearty applaiisc for their efforts to .amuso. the assembled company. Miss Ibbo'ti.snn presided at the ■'organ.

Conskleral *kv consternation vffis < occasioned on it- becoming known, shortly after the abow mentioned ivueting 1 , thai "a well-known ami popular bachelor had not. returned, homo from a sporting; oxhibilion on which he had adventured to Iho bush in pursuit of (.ho suofulcnt pigeon. A search parly wasi rjiiickly organ i.»-wl", and arrangnments made for an early .-tart on the following inorninsy. Meanwhile-. Messrs Giblin Bros, jjluckily s-lurt rt d ofV". and mode a thorough -oxploi-ation by lanten'( light of the bush adjoiningtheir cloai'Jiigs, but after porsisung- till long 1 past in id night their "-fforts to find the missing one we.rei unrewarded. Beforo daylight many of the search pai"ty, comprising 1/5 of Mangorei's best, were, away, and there is littlo doubt that had our popular bachelor been, conlont to have remained lost for a "few houis he would have been well found. Unfortunately, or perhaps 'fortunately, he was not requiring the services of a search party, having, inconsiderately, some think, taken it upon himself to discover his whereabouts and walk out. It appears, from Iris own account^, that had he not travelled in a wrong and somewhat circuitous direction, lie would have had no 'difficulty in making the open on the previous evening. Failing}, however, to do this, he deemed it expedient to, pas 1 * the night in the quiet seclusion of thn forest. At daybreak, after a snrmewhn't disturbed night, he determined to ?na"kn homewards without further delay, and having successfully dodged some of the early members of the search party, gained the open only to run np a- , gainst Mr G. Carrick, wlio was just starting to join the hunt. This gen- j i tleman promptly took him in charge, ! and after attending to his temporal wants (he was a bit pecky) siartetl up country to apprise the- busy searchers that further fossicking wo.uld. 1 e> wasted time. I understand P.B. is none the woise for his adventure. It transpires, however, that in his efforts to extricate himself from tho all too fond embraces of supplejacks and rush lawyers, his gun exploded) luckily without damage, and it redounds in his credit ■ that in spite of all lie went through Jio never relinquished ins hold of Iho game, a»d finally ißsued triumphant, gra^pjing by the neck a fins pigeon, which he avers he 'considers is well worth any HUlo inconveniences thai Ilia iemporarj' absence may have occasioned. I am told that P.B. has expressed himself very grateful to all those who st> promptly turned out to look for him.