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Observer, Volume 1, Issue 13, 11 December 1880, Page 110

The writer of "Echoes from the Cafe"' in Saturday's Waikato Times says :•— " Death has carried off one of the most regular diners at the Cafe. This was ' Jim,' a splendid, large Newfoundland dog, "belonging to Mr. Lawrence Nathan. >He used to come to the yard-gate of the Cafe', every day at half-past two o'clock, and stand patiently waiting thereuntil someone opened the gate for him. Then he used to enter the yard and get his dinner. He was not saucy, for he always ate what had heen left on the plates of the other diners. He had one fault, however, and one which would bring ruin on the proprietor if it were general, and that was that he always went away without paying for his dinner. 'Jim,' was something of a hero. He had heen given to Mr. Nathan by the captain of the 'Glenlora,' and nothing pleased him more than to take a walk down the wharf. When one of the storemen went to the wharf with goods for shipment, 'Jim' used to go down, too, carrying the receipt book. He was trotting along the wharf one stormy day, with the receipt book in his mouth, when he saw a poor little dog in the water, almost drowned. 'Jim' was not like the young man who refused to go to the assistance of another who was droAvning, •because he had not been introduced.' He dropped the receipt on the wharf, jumped into the water, seized the little dog in his teeth, and swam to the nearest steps with him."