C G-. Daley's experiences remind the Hokitika Leader of the well-known Btory of the city merchant who was expatiating to his country friend on the pleasures and advantages of a town career as compared with that of the modest husbandmaD. ' Why, look at me,' he said. ' When I came here ten years ago I hadn't a penny.' ' And what is your financial position now ?' inquired the friend. ' Why, I owe twenty thousand pounds.' Mr Daley's experiences are of greater concern than those of the man just referred to.
'Wellington. Suburbs ' Wilford evidently believes in keeping himself well before the public. Just at the present time he is the hero of a police court joke, a writ for damages against the Otago Witness, and a witty rejoinder at a patriotic fund meeting, all of which have been duly chronicled by the. ubiquitous reporter in the daily press. The writ against the Danedin paper is an account of some comment on the running of the horse Motuiti The police court joke was a reference to the Bun Tuck affair which was lugged in by the ears during the cross examination of a China man. Geo. Hutchison was entering the court, and Wilford drily remarked to him : ' We have jaat been mentioning your Ban Tuck case.' As for the witty rejoinder, it came abont through Tommy sitting down too emphatically on a weak-kneed chair, with the result that both came to the floor, and he grasped the opportunity to remark that he could safely say that was not the firat seat he had lost. Of such mintite particles is the entity of fame "and popu larity composed.
