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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue I, 7 January 1899, Page 20

The Rev. G. B. Monro, of St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church, Remuera, Aucklands, intends to pay a visit to the Old Country shortly. Among the passengers to Auckland from the South by the Rotoiti on Saturday was Mr E. D. O’Rorke, who has returned from a visit to England.

This is the story of a. nervous man who once took part in a cricket match. Nine wickets were down, and the home team wanted but two runs to win. ’Simple’ was the last man to go in. It was his first attempt at batting. The bowler sent down a ’fast ’un.’ Simple saw it coming and—closed his eyes. By some extraordinary good fortune the ball struck the edge of the bat and glanced off towards the boundary. Simple was dazed. He had expected to be bowle i. The crowd as one man yelled to him ‘to run.’ A look of terror gradually overspread his face, and, flinging away his hat, he had scaled the palings and disappeared before the astonished spectators could recover their senses.