THE CHIMNEY CORNER.

BUGCELLEB ANK’S TENT. A TALE OF UNFOUNDED ACCUSATION. As may be imagined, I passed, both physically and mentally, a miserable night, though the bodily inconvenience was trivial compared with the shame which consumed me. I lighted a small fire at the foot of a tree, and after eating the remainder of my biscuit, and drinking a pannikin of cold water, rolled myself in my blankets, and lay down. I had not the heart to buy tea or any other pro- ] visions at the itoyal Liver Store, for I felt that the proprietor would naturally believe the brazen-faced culprit was spend ?ng the proceeds of his villany ; and I deter mined not to go elsewhere, lest my ac cuser's should suspect that I meditated flight. I had just covered my head to shield my face from the keen south wind, which was whistling among the trees, when I heard a gentle womanly voice say ing, close by mo— “ Mr. Parker, my husband has bid me bring you a pannikin of nice hot tea. He saw that you had none. ” “Thank you, Mrs. Langford, I don’t want it.” “And he says you had better go and sleep in bis mate’s tent.” “ No, I am resolved to stay here.” “ At least drink the tea to please me,” she urged. “Perhaps you will drink it if I tell you, that though the others think you are guilty, I believe you are inno cent.” “ Why do you think so, Mrs. Lang ford 1” I said uncovering my face, and raising myself on my elbow. “ I cannot tell; but you have not the face or the manner of a thief. lam sure you arc innocent, and, I pray God you may he proved so. There, I will set the tea by your side ; drink it, it will keep you warm. Goodnight.” “ Good night,” I murmured, and felt comforted. There -was one person who thought me innocent. For a long time I could not go’to sleep, and as I lay awake I wondered whether anybody was keeping watch. The howl ing of the wind among the trees made so much noise that my ears were unable to detect any stealthy movement of human feet ; but I afterwards learnt that morose Fry—without any feelings of personal animosity, but simply as a matter of duty —had posted himself in a mimosa bush in my immediate vicinity, and kept his finger on the trigger, of his revolver, lest I should make a sudden spring from my hard coach, and attempt to fly under cover of the darkness. At length I sank into an uneasy sleep, from which I was awakened about dawn by a sensation of extreme chilliness. I looked around ; the wind had lulled, and a steady soaking rain was coming down. I got up, shook myself, and as my fire had been quenched by the wet, walked over to the public fire in front of the Itoyal Liver. This fire had so thoroughly pentrated into the heart of the big log which formed its basis, that nothing short of a tremendous thunderstorm could put it out. I piled a heap of chips on the red embers, and presently produced a cheer ful blaze, which afforded some warmth to my chilled limbs. By degrees the scat tered inhabitants of the gully rose from their beds, and began leisurely to make preparations for breakfast, the day being too wet to admit of any “ sinking” oper ations. Amongst others, Mr. Fry made his appearance, looking more sour than ever, which was, no doubt, in some mea sure due to his self-imposed sentinel duty. Shortly afterwards the whole company, whom I designate as the Court of Inquiry, assembled in Brocklebank’s store. An animated discussion appeared to be taking place, and presently I heard Langford’s voice— “ Well, we must not let the poor fellow starve. Fry, just go and ask him to come inside. ” “ I wouldn’t, if I was you,” answered Fry. “Nonsense, man; we’re not bar barians. ” So Mr. Fry put out bis head, and said, very gruffly—■ “ You’re to came inside.” 1 would have refused, but the steady chilling rain, and my famishing condition, for I had not eaten a good meal since the previous morning, overcame my fortitude and I obeyed the summons. “Guilty or not guilty, Mr. Parker, observed Langford, “ you must have som breakfast. ” So I sat down on a packing-case apar from the others, and silently ate the fooi which was proffered me. As soon as I had finished, Langfon said— “We have decided, Mr. Parker, b have this case investigated by the police Will you be kind enough to accompany u to the Camp “ Certainly,” I answered. “My wife and Adamson,” continue( Langford, addressing Brocklebank, ‘ ‘ wil take charge of the store while we an away.” “ And ye must leave us the tin box Mr. Brocklebank,” observed Adamson, i shrewd-faced old Scotsman. “Mistres: Langfcrd and I purpose to give it : searching examination.” “ Oughtn’t we take it to the Camp V asked Brocklbank, who had the box ii hand. “Idon’t think it’s necessary,” replied Langford ; ‘ 1 the police had better returr here, and examine it on the spot.” “ Yery well,” said Brocklebank, “ Here’s a strange thing,” he suddenly exclaimed, as he turned over the separate packages. “ Another parcel of gold ii missing.” “ Then Mr. Parker can’t be the thief,’ exclaimed Mrs. Langford joyfully. Sin had just entered the tent. “You know, John, that he was watched all night, and that he never stirred.” “He wasn’t watched all night,” growled Fry. “How’s that, Fry?” asked Langford. “I thought you undertook ” “To watch him ?” interrupted Fry. “So I did ; but I foil asleep in that mimosa bush for an hour and a half by my watch. He’d plenty of time,” he added, with a sour glance at me, to help himself if he pleased.” The extreme improbability that a thief would steal Brocklebank’s parcels of gold one by one occurred to my mind, and must have occurred to every reflecting person present. But as I had determined to say as little aspossiblo, I kept silence. Shortly afterwards we started for our destination. No attempt was made to keep me in formal custody, and to the eye of a chance passer-by we were simply a partjf of biuo-shirted, cabbage-tree-batted diggers walking along briskly together ; but I noticed that both Brocklebank and Fry bad their revolvers in readiness, and that they never suffered their eyes to stray from my person. We had reached the camp, and Lang ford had begun to narrate to the police superintendent there a circumstantial ac count of the supposed robbery, and was pointing out the painful suspicion which attached to myself, when the clatter of a horse’s hoofs was heard, and a moment later we saw Mrs. Langford, with her hair streaming in the wind from under her bonnet, and a heightened color in her cheeks, cantering towards the police barracks. She was evidently a practised horsewoman, for she was seated calmly and securely feminine fashion on a mascu line saddle, with one foot in the stirrup, and the other resting gracefully on her Breed’s shoulder. “John, my dear,” she exclaimed breathlessly, as she stopped her horse and

alighted without assistance, “Adamson wanted to ride old Jack, but I wouldn’t let him. I determined to bring the good news myself. Mr. Parker is innocant. The parcels of gold are all right.” “ All right 1” cried Brocklebank. “How can that be I” “ Why somebody—yourself, I suppose, Mr. Brocklebank —had folded two packets into one parcel. This has been done in two instances ; so that what we took for two packets, according to the label out side, were really four.” “ I am confident I never did so,” answered Brocklebank almost angrily. I need not describe the joyous leap which my heart gave as I listened to this most welcome intelligence. It is enough to say that everybody present crowded round me and shook me by the hand. When I say everybody, I do not mean Mr. Fry. lam not sure that he was not rather disappointed ; certainly he looked sourer than ever, but he had the civility to blurt out— “ You are well out of it, Parker.” As we returned to Iron Bark gully, the rain ceased, and the sun shone out glori ously, as if to celebrate my restoration to innocence ; and a couple of hours later, Langford and his mates having tempor arily admitted me to membership in their digging party, I was busily engaged in shovelling “-wash-dirt” into the “hopper” of their cradle. And now for the conclusion of my tale, which may appear somewhat surprising, but which I assure the reader is strictly true, as are all the main facts, of this narrative. I have altered the names of persons, but otherwise my story is a story of real facts, and some of these who were working on Iron Bark Gully in 1852 may possibly read this article, and be able to attest the truth of its statements. I had -worked very pleasantlj and amic ably for some days in Langford’s party, sharing Adamson’s tent at night, when one evening Brocklebank took me aside, and told me he wished to say a few w r ords to me privately. I had seen very little of him since the supposed robbery ; I had ' fancied he rather avoided me, and not only me but all his former acquaint ances. He no longer came out, as before, to gossip at the community-fire which burnt before his establishment, but as soon as business was concluded he shut ' himself up in his store, • and remained invisible till morning.

When he took me aside that evening, I was struck by the altered expression of

his countenance. His face was flushed, and there was an unsteady light in his eyes. I should have supposed that he had been drinking, but that I knew him to be a strict teetotaller, and that there was not a drop of intoxicating fluid in any of our tents, for in 1852 all spirit-selling on the diggings was carried on clandes tinely, and was therefore shunned by such steady respectable folks as most of our neighbors were. “My dear friend,” said Brocklebank, taking me by the hand, “ I have never been able to forgive myself the misery you underwent. The thought has haunted me day and night—” “Don’t say anything more about it now,” I entreated. “You begged my pardon the other day until I was quite ashamed. It was, I dare say, a whole some lesson for me. I shall have more pity for other supposed criminals in future.” “ Not,” pursued Brocklebank musingly, as if in soliloquy, “that I am personally responsible for your sufferings. The crime lies at other men’s doors.” I did not comprehend this last observa tion, but he proceeded to say— “ And now I am going to beg a favor — a favor which I scarcely venture to ask of you after what you have undergane. I want you to sacrifice a night’s rest and keep watch in my tent to-night. I have received information,” he added, sinking his voice to an impressive whisper, “that to-night my store is to be attacked and plundered. I have plenty of arms. Will you come, Parker 1” “ 1 shall be delighted,” I said, warming at the prospect of an adventure in which I was more likely to play the part of thief taker than thief. ‘ ‘ But wouldn’t it be well to tell Adamson, Langford, and the others, so as to have a strong party here to meet the scoundrels 1” “No, no,” he said mysteriously, grasp ing me by the wrist, “on no account. Don’t say a word to them. I will tell you why, to-night.” 1 could not, however, keep the duty

’ which I had undertaken to fulfil altogther , a secret, for I was obliged to tell Lang ford and Adamson that I was going to 3 sleep in Brocklebank’s tent. “ Mercy on the lad !” cried the old J Scotchman. “Why I should hae thocht 1 ye’d had enough of Brocklebank’s tent by this time. What does he want wi’ ye ?” 1 “He wants me for company. He’s rather nervous,” I replied evasively. } “ There’s something queer about Brock ■ lebank,” observed Langford. “ He’s 3 grown very silent and very strange during the last few days. I hope he isn’t going to stop payment. There are twenty ounces of our hard-earned gold in his *■ hands.” * “ Nae fear o’ that,” answered Adam son. 1 With these few words he lighted his 1 pipe, and whistling,to his dog, stalked 3 forth, gun in hand, to look after a chance 1 opossum. , “ Well, Parker,” said Langford, I sup pose you’d better go, but for goodness’ 1 sake don’t get into another mess.” “ I think there’s no fear of that,” I re plied laughingly. “I don’t like Brocklebank quite as well as I did,” observed my mate— ‘ ‘ there’s a curious suspicious look in his eyes, and he sometimes scowls at me as if 1 I had committed a crime.” 1 With these words our conversation ter minated, and soon after I went into the Royal Liver Store for the night. Brocklebank was sitting on a flour barrel, reading a book by the light of a candle. The flushed and excited look which had characterised his face earlier in the day had disappeared : his manner was calm, deliberate, and business-like. After what he had told me during our late interview, I was not surprised to see a capped and loaded revolver lying by his side, although I had been given to under stand by Langford and others that our part of the diggings was almost as free from crimes of violence as an English country village. However, he made no allusion to the weapon at his side, and for a considerable time we sat conversing on various topics unconnected with the business for which I had visited his tent. By degrees the sounds produced by Euro pean civilization became fainter ; the last digger discharged the contents of his gun or pistol previous to reloading it, and even the dogs began to grow sleepy, and Australian Nature reasserted her reign in the melancholy moping cry of the more poke, or Southern ewl, and the ceaseless chatter of the bull-frogs in an adjacent swamp. Then Brocklebank, quietly closing his book, and laying his hand upon his revolvei’, addressed me thus : [to be coktinued.l

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THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1880.

Printed and published by HORASE JOHN Weeks and Charles Dixon, at their Printing Office, East Street, Ashburtor, Tuesday, Match 23,1880.



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POWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED.— The effects of one tcaspoonful taken in a little water before going to bed is extraordinary. N* family should be without it in the winter. Sold by Chemists and Medicine Vendors throughout the World, is I '/i d and 2s 3d per per bottle; a great saving in taking family bottles, ns each. Established over 50 years. Prepared only by THOMAS POWELL, Blackfriars Road, London. SK for POWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED SOLD by all CHEMISTS and STORE KEEPERS. Observe the Trade Mark, “Lion, Net, and Mouse.” Wholesale Agents in the Australian and New Zealand Colonies -Elliot Brothers; Eyers & Solomon ; Felton, Grimwalde, & Co. ; P. and S. Falk, Faulding & Co. ; Rocke, To.mpsit, & Co. ; Rosenthall & Co. ; Kempthorne, Prosser, & Co. ; S. Hoffenung & Co.; Hemmons, Laws, & Co. ; Berkley, Taylor, & Co.; and all other wholesale houses. Proprietor— Thomas Powell, Blackfriars Road London. KEATING’S WORM TABLETS, A PURELY VEGETABLE SWEETMEAT, noth in appearance and taste, furnishing a most agreeable method of administering the only certain remedy for INTESTINAL or THREAD WORMS. It is a perfectly safe and mild preparation, and is especially adapted for children. TESTIMONIAL. Medical Hall Giklersome, Nov. 28th, 1576. j Mr. Keating, Dear Sir, —I think it nothing but my duty to inform you of the immense sale I have for your Worm tablets, which I may justly say is enormous, and in every case gives the greatest satisfaction. I have now in stock two bottles containing the Round Worms brought me during the last few days by customers, one Worm 40 yards long. I dare not be without the remedy.—yours respectfully, M, A. Walker. Sold in tins by all Chemists and Druggists Proprietor, THOS. KEATING, London, REWARD AND CAUTlON.—Whereas fraudulent imitations of this umsurpassed remedy have been sold, I hereby request any one knowing the vendor of the same to com municate with me, on conviction of the offender a liberal reward will be paid. 637 BUGS, FLEAS, MOTHS, BEETLES And all other Insects arc DESTROYED by KEATING’S INSECT POWDER, which is quite harmless to domestic animals. In exterminating Beetles the success of this Powder is extraordinary, and no one need be troubled by those pests. It is per fectly clean in application. Ask for and be sure you obtain “ KEAT ING’S POWDER,” as Imitations are Noxious, and fail in giving satisfaction. Sold by all Chemists in Tins, is. & 2S. 6d. each 63c GRATEFUL—COMFORTIN G. jgPPS’S BREAKFAST COCOA. “ By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of .he fine properties of well selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately-flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors’ bills. It is by tne judi cious use of such articles of diet, that a constitu tion may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating arcund us, ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fata shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure bicod and a properly nourished frame.” —The Cizit Service Gazette, SOLD ONLY IN PACKETS LABELLED JAMES EPPS AND CO Homospathic Chemists, London,



TO PRINTERS. MACHINE FOR SALE. For s a l e. One Second-hand Double Demy Tape Printing MACHINE, in thorough working order, with rollers, moulds, &c., complete. This machine has been replaced by a Double Royal Wharfedale, which necessitates removal of the Double Demy Machine formerly used for printing the “Herald ” and “ Guardian,” for hand or steampower. Can be seen and all par ticulars obtained at our office. For a Country Office this Machine suits admirably, as it can easily be turned by hand, for which we have fitted a fly wheel and handle. Paica £7O. WEEKS & DIXON. Ashburton, January 14, 1879 WANTED KNOWN—That Visiting Cards, plain or mourning, can be obtained printed in various styles, at the “Herald” and “Guardian” offices, near j the Rai ™ r i.y Station '



Business Notic 85T THIS ADVERTISEME BE CAREFULLY REA MEMBERED BY EVI TERESTED IN FENCIN THE PATENT O' SAMSON FENCI Has now been before the p> years, and during tin 5,000 TONS HAVE B! Giving very great satisfactio ■which we hold numerous tes well-known colonists ; and daily increasing to such ai numerous spurious imitatio been introduced in the vari Australia and New Zealand purpose of damaging the re] Patent Oval Samson Wire. The Samsor Was patented and introdui ago in Victoria, New Queensland, and New Zeal principal claim set fourth wa Oval to prevent fraud. Ye these patents, firms —many standing—have, for the sa commission, lent themselve duction of various spuri which render them liable t( and annoyance and disappc users. We would point out to chasers that any persen ere( Fences, other than the Pa son, renders himself liabl The Patent Acts on this explicit; therefore, after excuse can be made. We have had instances br notice where some persons! principled as to mix the Wire amongst the Patent order to make a sale, a the reputation of the genu We have a great aversio proceedings in this math compelled to, in self-defen practices are at once stop]. The public, when purch fore cautioned to see that a tin tally thus : PATENT OVAL SAJ IN OYAIi ; And the Patentee’s T Mark : M I R IN PADXiOCJ Manufactured by the V Company, Warringto By using the Patent 0 you get a better and ch< any other, and the best imitations already referrec #©-A comprehensive c advantages, with numen from well-known colonists to any address on applicat The state Forests of Vi< with the Patent Oval Sam the one at Dookie is, wit best Wire Fence in Austn come from great distances PRICES GREATLY



Printers and Publishers. IF YOU WANT A NEAT BUSINESS CARD GO TO THE “ GUARDIAN’JBpFtICE IF YOU WANT WELL-PRINTED CIRCULAR, TRY THE “GUARDIAN” OFFICE. IF YOU WANT AN ATTRACTIVE HANDBILL, TRY THE “GUARDIAN ’ OFFICE. IF YOU WANT MAGNIFICENTSPOSTER, CALL AT THE “GUARDIAN” OFFICE. IF YOU WANT ANY DESCRIPTION OF PLAIN OR ORNAMENTAL PRINTING CALL AT THE “GUARDIAN’’OFFICE East Street Nort WEEKS & DIXON, PROPRIETORS. THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Price Twopence, AN be obtained from the following Agents, who will receive orders c Intending Subscribers will please fill up forms, which can be obtained from any of the above Agents. They will also oblige by stating on the hack pf order to which agent they pay their suH%iptions. WEEKS AND DIXON/ Printers and Publishers