A TALL TAHN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1124, 4 March 1885, Page 4

A TALL TAHN.

The Melbourne " Bulletin " has the following : — " Some of our readers, in fact most of them, are doubtless profoundly learned. They will, be acquainted with the fact that the New Zealand earthquakes are by no means uncommon. Visit New Zealand, and you'll experience as many earthquakes as you'll hear lies about the wonderful salubrity of the climate. Some adyauu&d cLluHoio, indeed, attribute fcho healthiness of New Zealand to the frequency of earthquakes. Earthquakes, they aver, stir up the torpid liver, and encourage active habits, by causing the active citizen to leap from his couch and go for the doorway at all sorts of hours. A native of that land made up what mind he had to visit Melbourne for the last Cup race. He went on board after drinking ion voyage to himself at a number of pubs. He went to his berth and slumbered. In the dead of the night he awoke. He heard and felt, with considerable alarm, the pulsation of the screw. He had a stern cabin. Then he skipped for the door-way. Seeing the cabin mate placidly sleeping, on he roused him with a yell — • Rouse up, rdus,e up, you dunderhead, and come here., The devil gave such a continuous shakeaseyer I experienced. We'll have the blessed place about our ears in a minute or two.' It was never ascertained who thrqw the bootjack that fetched that New Zealander on the back of tlie head." „