The Carisbrook Castle

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1437, 22 September 1905, Page 2

The Carisbrook Castle

An Untold Incident

A correspondent writes —Tho 50th an> nivetsary of our landing has eomo and gone. Tho speakers havo passed away over tho stage, and their reminiscences are also one of tho past. Inoidents of the voyages of the good ships Cacisbrooke Oastle, and Dover Oastle, wero frequent on Inst Friday night ;■ but there is ono whiob has not been told.

The stout ship Carisbrooke Oastle lay over on her beam under a stiff ten-knot breeze. The Nautili, yc Portugsso men.q'war has sunk beneath the lumpy surface of tho Paoilio. Tho four hundred souls on board wore busy feeding their bodies on that moinorablo Sunday afternoon, and a splondid southern sun boomed down on two plum puddings which " Lay in beanty, side by side," and in all their solitary loveliness in tho ooolc'a copper. Dinnor was almost ovor, and almost every soul on board had satisfied tho" inner man" or woman. Every pudding, like tho British (leot at Trafalgar,

" That day bad done its duty." But those two remained, The oook with language which would not have disgraced %i Poro in tho Wellington " nionogorio" when diecussing Waitangi < a woek ago, stuck his big fork into the " duffs" and found that like mac and wifo, no earthly power might sunder them: Ho (hook with oaths, rage, mvl oven fear. Fantastic droams' of sorcery, inagio, and witeh-crift, miH havo floated over his heated brow; and still these puddings woro not to bo separated; and lay together, and more in unity than tho inombers of the great Orange Brothorhood.

Tho afternoon had waned, tho chariot of tho sun wan hastening toward its goal, tho consternation haj gono from tho cook'e brow, and tl;o sea looked serono, when a your.glfldy timidly approached tho galley, and spirited the ghostly pudding away, It had boon wrapped in tho nothor garment o' tho female sex and, and like the Siamese twins, " In lifo it had been boautiful, and in doath it was not divided," I