A HIDDEN BOTTLE.
The, Dunedin " Star " says : — " A few days ago we told of a mason's trowel that bad been found built into the walls of the old gaol, and to-day we hear that thirty- , eight vodd years . ago, when -this institution was being, built, the workmen 'must have had a weakness for building articles into its stones and mortar. A young man was employed by the contractor, Mr H. Calder, and he, having gone shares at New Year's time "with his mates in the purchase of. a quarter-cask of whisky from Reynolds's bonded stores, did not know what to do with his proportion. He solved his dilemma by giving some to his landlord, who had no qualms, and,' putting the rest in a bottle, corked it up, and built it into the 14-inch walls of one of the cells. And there it stayed until the other day, for, on reading our account of the trowel, he went to. the contractor who is demolishing the old gaol and told him how, thirty-eight years ago, he had placed a. bottle of whisky in such a spot, and he located the site within a foot of where the bottle has been found. Unfortunately, it had been laid lengthways, and the spirit, having leaked out and evaporated, there was nothing left but a thickly encrusted though perfectly sound and clean glass bottle."
A HIDDEN BOTTLE.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 6521, 26 June 1899, Page 3
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