YET ANOTHER "TRAVELLER."

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2124, 18 February 1886, Page 2

YET ANOTHER "TRAVELLER."

The Wnikato ih a veritable "Dkie h Laud ' for the class of gentlemen whom we lia\e taken to designating "travellers." We do not deny their right and title to a much harsher term, but "tra\ oiler" is more euphonious, and not so offensive to cars polite, as "rogue," " vagabond," and many other well deserved, but too piquant epithets. Nobody here ought to feel aggrieved, because the reputation which attracts the designing, not to say the dishonest, has been acquired by long exercise of that spirit of charity which thinketh no ovil. As it is more blessed to gne than to receive, so it is much better to be swindled than to swindle, and when we reflect upon the immense nnmberof timei we have been "taken in, 'so to Kpeak, we are driven, howe\ er reluctantly feeing how modejt we are), to the conclusion th.it we at any rate have reached one of the topmost pinnacles of blessedness. Let us express a fervent hope th.it the reputation we have earned, and which is our mo«,t piecious possession, will never be buffered to depart. Hitherto we hate been famed for the benovolent spirit in which our heaitshave been opened to the .stranger, be his countty or his creed what it may. Sometime* we have been "sold,"' "had," "cheapened,' whatever may bo the correct expression ; but wo have scored the most points, for we have always "taken him in." However, this long preamble is, if not prosy, at least irrelevant. What we took up our pen to write about was the ca«o of a young American gentleman, pleasing in form and feature, engaging in manner, and of quick intelligence, compared with whom Mcßeth was a i lamb and the panorama sharps suck-ing-turkeys. This young person has been endoavouring to do for some time pant what in these degenerate days is by no meant, easy— he has been trying to mako his. living without the aid of honpst work. Ho had evidently been told that the world was his oyster, and he thanked Providence that the industry of other people bad served to open the shell sufficiently wide for him to get his claw in. Had his physical powers been equal to his belief in this truly socialistic doctrine, he would probably nave taken away a few hundred acres of Waikato soil in his pockets ; as it was, with his limited faculties ho was only able to swiii or rather relieve a Hamilton hotelkeeper of about £•*>, in addition to indicting irreparable injury to the feelings of a number of respectable residents, who, deceived by his auiet gentlemanly demeanour, were inuced to take him by the hand and treat him as they would any other decent fellow. Ho gave his name as Arthur Morton, and represented that ho had been ient out to the colonies by the propi ictor of the New York Herald to repoit on our mineral resources. He ai rived at Hamilton on Thursday. He took up his I quarters at the Hamilton Hotel, lived on the best; borrowed money fiom Mis Gwynne to pay for " cablegrams " ; hired horses and buggies, bought clothing at a local shop, paid for nothing and left by the train on Monday for (jJuam. We were almost forgetting that he left a cheque, drawn on Auckland, at the hotel, which was sent to the bank for collection, and returned marked "no account." Since then the police have received information that a person answering to the description of Morton is wanted on account of seveial little escapades similar to that wo described. His name in other places was "H. H. Ives," and his occupations have been various and dissimilar. A warrant is out for hit apprehension, and we may hear more of him in the course of a day or so.

Mr A. G. Bright, favourably known in the B.iy of Plenty jw the host'of the Commercial Hotel, Taurung.i, notifies that ho h;w taken that commodious and wclLkmnvi) hostelry the Waikato Hotel, Hamilton Enst, where he will be pleaded to see his old and any new friends,. Tourists en route for the lakes will find every comfort at the hotel. In another part of this issue will be found an important advertisement bv Mews _\V. J. Hurst •md Co., Auckland and Ohnupo, giving particu. lar« of their new season's seeds, manures agricultural machinery, Sc, kc. Thcv are buyers of farmers' produce of all kinds, and horse feed and other farmers' requirements are always on hand at Auckland and Ohaupo. It is Worth a Tkiai .— " I was troubled for many jcars with kidney complaint, gene) &c. my blood became thin, I was dull and inactive, could hardly crawl about, and was an old worn -out man all over, and could get nothing to help me until I got American Co.'s Hop Bitters, and now my blood and kidneys .ire nil right, and I am as active as a. man of thirty although I am leventy-two, and I have no doubt it will io for othets of ray are. It is worth the