REMINISCENCES OF REGATTA DAY, 1883

On the eve of this eventful day I had gone to a friend's house to make some plan for amusing ourselves on the morrow. While there, several young fellows came in, and "with them a Yankee, a notable betting man. As soon as he saw me, ho made up his mind to win some of my money, especially as my countenance —so I have been told—denotes extreme innocence. ■" Well, stranger," said he, addressing me, "I guess I will bet you ten pounds that I will win fifty pounds from you to-morrow," and with this speech he deposited notes aud gold to the said amount. "The bet is as follows : That at a given time in the day tho man who has the greatest number of ladies around him within a circumference of eight to ten feet, is to take stakes. No en ticing, by asking them, is to bo resorted to ; they must come of their own free will. Whichever breaks the conditions loses the money, the bet to be drawn if there are not more than twenty ladies around either gentleman, umpires to be chosen to decide the bet and see fair play. The whole affair to take place on the Beach Road, North Shore, between the two wharves, at any time you like during the day." I thought it over, and how very disagreeable it would be for me to lose sixty pounds. I was engaged then to a young girl, and I was to havo another fifty added to my ac count before she would marry me, and if I was to win it, I felt inclined to jump for joy at the bare idea ; but if I lost, would my fiancee wait till I, a bank clerk, had made £100, and would she not bo disgusted and throw me over when she heard of my folly ? Well, it was after all for love of her. I thought all this over in a moment, and then spoke out: "(Jive me ten minutes to think about it by myself, and I will then ■decide." This being agreed to, I left tho company and wont into the sitting-room close by to cogitate. The first tiling that struck my eye 3 was a " barometer," the hands of which pointed to "unsettled." I tapped it, and the hands fell to " rain." A brilliant idea flashed across my mind. I went on to tho verandah and satisfied myself as to the probabilities ■of its being wet on the morrow. I marched back again to the company I had left, and nervously said, to the astonishment of all my friends, "I'll take up the bet, which is to bo decided between 4 p.m. and 4.20 p.m. to-morrow, the 29th inst." My Yankee acquaintance wanted another hour and more time ; however, seeing I would ■only bet on these conditions, he agreed. The conditions were again rehearsed, and hands? having been shaken, my friend had £120 in his possession to keep till the fol lowing day, when it would be handed over to the winner. My friends, who only waited the departure of Mr Yankee -who left soon .after we had decided —began to poke fun at me, but I had too much to think about to hear or to care. I took my departure and went home, but not to bed. I worked hard all that night, and allowed no one to disturb me or see what 1 was about. The morning of tho eventful day arrived, and I allowed my friends to enjoy themselves without my company. I was so upset I felt positively ill. The weather was windy, but not a sign of rain. Nothing could exceed my exaspera tion and dismay, as I felt certain that if fine 1 should lose my money, while if wet I should win. " Sixty pounds gone," said I. Why had I been such a fool ? Why had I not joined the Blue Ribbon Army? and my heated brain would never have made me do such a mad act had I done this, when asked a week ago. All that morning I was walking up and down my room, and still the sun shone and the timo was nearing ; •certainly, at 11 o'clock I began to revive when I saw it clouding over rapidly, and noticed it was raining on tho Waitakerei Ranges. At 1 p.m. I had another look. "Ye gods and little fishes ! it's raining," yelledl, but nooneheardme; everybody had gone to see the boat races. Thank good ness, the barometer was right, the weather had become unsettled,and it was raining.al though by no means enough to please tne. At a quarter to four on the 29th January, in the midst of a driving rain, one might have seen two gentlemanly-looking individuals making their way through the crowd of soaked pleasure-seekers, seeking shelter on the Beach Road, North Shore. Both gentlemen carried parcels : the most inno cent and happy looking of the two had under his arm a very long and unwieldy one, while the other had a box-shaped one of considerable size. I was the man with the long looking parcel wrapped up witli several shoots of brown paper, rapidly get ting wet, and my Yankee acquaintance was the other. At 4 p.m., punctually, I noticed my adversary making his prepara tions. Calling a small boy who carried four sticks, ho placed them on that portion ■of Beach Road where the grass then grew, ■ and having unwrapped tho covering, which was nothing else than an awning, ho pro ceeded to mado it fast to tho four ends of tho supports, and get undor what little shelter it afforded him. He then began to unpack all kinds of soft goods— dainty little bonnets, a fow dresses, ribbons, parasols, etc., etc. ; in fact, just the articles to entice the fair sex, and as they were ticketed at an absurdly low price, he would have stood a fair chance of winning but for the rnin. Ho began shouting out the names of tho articles he had to sell, and the price, in tho most approved salesman's fashion, but at five minutes past four there was no one near him. People thought him cracked, and passed by jeering him". It was timo for action, on my part. Tearing off tho brown paper wrapping, and within :W()yards of my disconsolate-looking Yankee, I raised my magic wand. Shaking loose the thipk folds of tho stout canvass that surrounded it, with a strong arm I opened out an umbrella of vast dimensions, being no less than 16ft. in diameter. It was ;is much as I could do to keep it perpendicular, pouring and blowing as it did. I had not long to wait ; my lady frionds did not dcsei-t mo ; a rush was made and I was besieged, sur rounded on all sides by the charming belles of Auckland, and tho North Shore gentle men too, who, no doubt felt jealous at my monopoly, wanted to set under my umbrella, but I called out and said I wanted no gentlemen. At 4.15 p.m. I counted no less than 30 fair damsels and 20 children around me; at 4.20 p.m. there were no less than 60 of the gentler sex, beside children. I was proclaimed a winner, and it was closely guarded on all sides that I wended my happy way to the ferry, where a steamer was ready to take us to the other side. On my arrival at Queen-street Wharf; I met my Yankee acquaintance, and it was thus that ho addressed me: "I guess, stranger, you are not quite so innocent as I took you to be, but if it had not been for the rain, young man, I should now be crossing this street to shout for you !" After such a hint I had nothing else to do but to follow out his suggestion. I did shout for him, but since then I havo joined tho Blue Ribbon Army, so be not shocked. I need scarcely add that I am also a bene dict- W. R. E.

A GOLDFIELD STORY.

(From "Household YVokds.")

" How long have you been in the colony ?'«

" I arrived just a week ago."

The answer to my interrogation was given by my neighbour, a fresh, vigorous, handsome young fellow of five-and-twenty or thereabouts, who had been my travelling companion on the top of Cobb and Co.'s coach during the transit between Melbourne and Castlemaine.

He was a Welshman—a farmer's son, I in ferred, and one of the last batch of recruits who had rushed out to the great battle fields where the daily strife for gold was waged so passionately and bitterly. Of course, he had all the energy and enthusiasm of a new hand, and, as I looked at his fair face, deep chest, and bold blue eyes, I asked myself, sadly enough, how long it would be before, like many others, ho would have become a dispirited failure or a reckless mining desperado.

I was in the first batch myself, not through any lack of industry or honesty ; perhaps because of the presence of the latter quality the 'cute ones might have told you.

It was not the prospect of an El Dorado that had lured me to the colonies. I had been settled there, and prospering, before the world-famed "hepherd saw nuggets in the creek ;but, bitten by the mania that turned peaceable citizens into ravening beasts and left once happy homesteads desolate, I got rid of my stock and impedimenta at ruinous prices, and decamped for the mining districts.

Of course, I had the usual gleams of luck that make the race for wealth a passion here ; but they were so few and brief, and the long nights of despondency that lay between were so toil-filled and bitter ! It was the navvy's existence without the navvy's recompense. But, naturally, we sent home good accounts of the big nuggets as one and another turned them up, and, Briton-like, we kept our disasters to our selves, and so the new recruits kept pour ing in, and extortion, and rapacity, and dishonesty spread like a plague. Ido not deny that noble things were done and cruel things borne, now and again, heroically. Even in its lowest depths, humanity retains some stamp of the divine ; but I must re luctantly confess that these stirring memo ries are matter of tradition, and not of per sonal experience with me.

Anyone who has ever thought about mining must understand that it cannot be carried on single-handed ; that for tho pro cesses of digging and washing alone, not to speak of protecting, cooking for, and serv ing each other, at least four partners are almost a necessity, and, could so many work togethei" harmoniously, each claim could run a gang of double that number. But these partnerships are the main diffi culty of the miner's life, the scope for his choice of a kindred spirit being so limited, and the strong probability that the first gleam of prosperity will turn his mate into a swindler or a drunkard, so very dishearten ing.

For some time past we had been working in a gang of three—two old miners, far more experienced jn the life than I was, having picked me up; hut our late washings having been more profitable than usual after the rainy season, I knew Rogers and Smith were on the look-out for a fourth hand. _ Not guessing that any but a man of their own selection would be unfavourably received by them, and feeling much drawn towards ray young companion on the stage coach, and friendships being rapidly cemented here, I made him acquainted with our circumstance? as we bowled along over the uneven dirty highway. "I havo nothing to offer you but the chance of gold and the certainty of hard work," I concluded; "but such as it is you are welcome to it, for the present, at any rate."

" I'm your man, and thank you heartily." he said, grasping my hand with British warmth ; and then as we neared Castle maine, and the sun, like a red ball, dipped towards the east, I enumerated to him the tools he would require, and narrated, as closely as I could, what our life would be together.

The more I talked to Ramsey the more I liked him. His spirits were so good they seemed to rouse my own, and the draw backs to our claim that I rather suggested than described were pooh-poohed in the cheeriest way. "We were far from the creek." " Well, he was strong enough to carry the clay any distance." " When we had found any dust we had to watch it armed all night." " Well, he could do with as little sleep as any man." "On the whole, I had not very much confident in Rogers and Smith." " In that case, how fortunate that wo were now two and two !"

So, encouragod in spite of myself, we advanced to the claim together. But the surly reception my new acquaintance there .met with soon intimated to me that I had been considered over-bold in my arrange ment, and tho discomfort of the first even ing did not diminish as days passed. In stinctively our little gang of four fell into two companies, Rogers and Smith kooping entirely to themselves, and leaving Ramsey and me to support each other. We had been about a month together, and it was the autumn of 1552, in the rainy season, so that the manner of life I had bestowed on Ramsey would have been no boon in any eyes but those of a miner. Our clothes dried on our backs or remained wet, as the case might be, and our claim was generally flooded, while ho and I worked on the night-shaft, keeping the shaft constantly baled, and digging as we could ; and it would have required eight men to be of any service, for the ground was so h-iavy and the digging so' deep. But the pros pector's claim was not far off, and so we toiled like slaves, knowing that if we struck gold at all it would likely be in large quantities. But, in spite of hope and energy, Ramsey and I were dead beat on Saturday night, and so, for the first time we urged our hitherto un thought-of right to a change of hours. Why should we not rest by night and labour by day? Why should the others have this advantage exclusively ? We mado our proposal good-temperedly, but it was rejected in such surly fashion that I lost patience, and, thinking to reduce our op ponents to terms, offered to sell our interest. " For what price ?" Smith asked quickly. "A hundred pounds each," I answered, feeling sure so much coin was not in the whole firm.

Without a word Rogers opened a canvas bag and counted out the gold, and thon I knew that we had been literally bought and sold.

"They have bottomed," Ramsey said, as we walked off with our few belongings. "Of course they have, the infernal rascals !" I answered viciously ; " that is why they wished us to keep on digging while they washed." On the following morning the rain had ceased, the day was fine, and the creeks were well filled with water,but Icould not see beauty or promise in anything, because the scoundrels who had cheated me had netted two thousand pounds. And then we were the beaten men, and the rude laugh that greets failure was ringing over us.

For a couple of weeks wo remained idle, chewing the cud of bitter discontent, even Ramsey's hopefulness having been damped by this lesson on men and things. And then our chances of making a fresh start were poor, the ground being occupied for miles, and any abandoned claim that we might have taken possession of requiring at least eight men to work it. But we were sick of partnerships, and coldly rejected any outside advances towards comradeship. As a kind of forlorn hope we at last decided to move up the hillside to some unclaimed shallow ground, which on inspection held out a vague kind of promise ; but we were not rushing to it very hopefully now, having encountered facts, and the facts having conquered us. But action of any kind was likely to be less unprofitable than inaction, and so we were on our way to remove our tent and swag to the new settle ment, when on the way we ran across two old Ballarat acquaintances, who were pack ing up their belongings for a start to a new rueh in the Gympic Ranges. The claim they were forsaking had not been wholly unpromising, but better luck, like an ignis fatuus lured them ahead, and so their forty foot shaft was about to be abandoned. " These brilliant things never turn out of much value," I said warningly, from the depth of my past experience ; " better stay where you are ;" but they shrugged their shoulders, declared they would risk the ex change, and so left us. " Suppose ye settle down here !" I sug gested, thinking the deep shaft more pro mising than the shallow ground. " I dare say it's much the same here or there," Ramsey acquiesced dismally,and so, before sundown, our tent stood on the spot so recently vacated by our friends For five days we worked, and such work ! One witli pick and shovel at the bottom, the other with windlass-rope and bucket, hauling the earth to the surface, and still not a trace of the precious metal had met our hungry eyes, while every fellow labourer who passed us thoughtlessly tanta lised us with the success of our old chums, or told us how some new arrivals had struck gold on the very piece of shallow ground we had meant to peg out on tho hillside. "You had better leavo me, Ramsay, bad luck sticks to tne," I told him despondently on the sixth morning. " Just as likely I have brought it witli me," he answered with a dash of his old cheeriness ; "at any rate, we'll have one other fling into the old hole on this last day of the week." J; V3? K- •JS ■ -/. ' ';.: ss> " Well, it must be the last," I answered, taking up my pick listlessly and descend ing. There is a certain comfort in the thought that you are doing a hopeless thing for the very last time; there is a certain satisfac tion in the knowledge that there are still other corners of the world open to you. Perhaps it was this that lent me new energy ; at any rate, I pounded away for a couple of hours with a will, and none the less energetically as I discovered that the character of the ground was changing. It was gravel I had laid bare, gravel which before many hours must prove to us of what value our labours had been. " Now then, that decides it one way or another," I said as I sent the first bucketful to the surface. "If there is no gold there I shake the mud of this claim off my feet for ever." So determined wael in this resolution that I intimated my ascent after the bucket, and taking my pick and shovel with me, cast what I expected to be a last look into the depths as I mounted. And yet in spite of myself excitement and a vague half hope were stirring at my heart. "If there is nothing here, we'll shake hands and part," I told Ramsey, as, with our burden between us, we started for the creek. He nodded without answering, and thon in silence we bent over the gravel, washing it as for dear life. Two—three—• ten minutes passed, and then we stood erect and looked at each other. A thimble ful of a yellowish substance lay at the bottom of the pannikin. " What is it ?" Ramsey asked, huskily. " It is gold !" I answered, with white lips. I don't know what we did then. We dare not embrace each other, for there were neighbours close enough to observe any un usual demonstration. I think we stood gazing at our treasure, and interjecting brief comments hoarsely. Then we gathered up our tools and re turned to the claim, feeling all at once as strong as Samson, and young with an eternal kind of youth. After all, these brief momenta do compensate for many a month of toil and privation ! Past experience had taught us the wisdom of keeping our own counsel now, but, in spite of our best efforts, it was soon understood along the line that we had bottomed, and were washing off sand. A certain esprit dc curps 'amonj; miners necessitates the comparative value of a yield being made known, nevertheless we managed to secure most of the big nuggets from the bottom of the cradle before "the final washing ofT. Possession has its own pains aud penalties. For a month, while toiling by day, we scarcely ventured to sleep at night, lest someone should descend our shaft and de spoil us of our treasure: but after a time the vigilant watch on us abated. Some of our neighbours in adjoining claims had bottomed, and their proceeds scarcely giving them wages, the value of our find was gravely questioned and finally forgotten. Before we left that shaft we had sold eight thousand pounds worth of gold, while in no other claiir. on the creek had the treasure amounted to as many hundreds. The ex planation was not far to seek. All tho gold was large, and across our claim lay a hedge of rock that, in past ages, had formed a barrier to the descent of the nuggets as the curront washed them from the reef above, and here, sought for to right and left, to front and rear, they had lain for centuries to enrich Ramsey and me just when our worst moment had come, and when we were nearest to depair. Of course, I know people would laugh if wo asserted that the gold had been left there that we might find it then, but I know that miners, and sailors, and men whose lives and fortunes are not exactly in their own hands, grow to believe more in luck, or chance—call it what you will—than others do, and somehow it affords us a kind of consolation even when things are dead against us to think that there is a plan in them somehow, and that they will right themselves for us sooner or later, here °or somewhere.

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, JANUARY 26, 1884.

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Jf conscience is what makes cowards of Wall, there ought to be a great many brave men these days. John Bright thinks Hare's system o£ representation a" fad," which would lead to the return of a lot of "political lunatics " to Parliament. Ticket-takers are not generally very well up in the classics, but the oneof the Coracdie Francaise beats them all. The sculptor Houston made a magnificent bust of Voltaire for the green-room of the theatre. Having remained some timeabsent, he went one night to the play. " Ihavefreeentrance.saidhe." . \\ ho are you, please ?" asked the collec tor. "I am the father of that fellow !" said Houston, showing the bust, which was exposed in the hall for a few days. "Mr Voltaire's father," cried the collector ; " let him up."



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(954) GREAT SOUTH ROAD —IJacres and6-roomed House and out-buildings on the main road, near Ellerslie Station Price. £625. (963) GEORGE AND WILLIAM STREETS, PON SONBY—Brick House of four rooms and scullery, outhouse, &c; allotment, 33 x 132; £400. GREAT NORTH ROAD—About 5 miles from Auckland —A new and well-finished House of 6 rooms, stable, &c, and 3 acres splendid land, in cultivation: bounded by a grand Btream of water; more land if required. O19) HARGRAVES-STREET. off College Road- Comfortable Villa of 5 rooms, workshop, Fowl-hoube, &c; grand view; near the city, and cheap. (949) MANGARK.—One of the beat little Grazing Farms in the province of Auckland. (6-121 MONTAGUE-STRKET, NEWTON.-New Six roomed Verandah Cottage, fitted with register grates, colonial oven, cupboards, &c. Price. 280. (719) MOUNT EDEN.—Handsome ilia of 6 rooms, pantry, bath room, stable, ana otner oon veniencos; largo allotment. Price, <mly £525- <Sj9> NORTHCOT E. —21 acres Homestead Farm, wire fenced ; part in grass and crop ; main-road frontage; i-piendid view of Harbour. Price, £54i>. (9;-5) NORTHCOTE. —10 acres good Land, Price only £21 per acre. ( 196) NEW LYNN. AVONDALE. -20 acres good loam; rising district: seven miles by rood: adjoining railway station. 4 good Grass Paddocks fenced; intent be subdivided with great advantage. A bargain. 944 NEWMARKET New-street: New Verandah House of 5 rooms; good well, tank. &o • nicn garden ; allotment iS x 120. Price only NELSON"-S' REET, CITY.-A very nioe and commodious Hou«o of 8 rooms, having a grand view of harbour. Price, £650 (879> ONEHUNGA.—House 7 rooms, in good order, good well, stable, &c, and two allotments • a great bargain. Price, £200. (866) ' PAPAKUR VATXEY. - 426 acres good alluvial land; partly fencod, and a portion improved; a splendid creek through the properly; about 3 miles from Railway Station. (812) POKIWO-- 'S9 acres Volcanic Land, nearly all level: 20 acres ele ir«d and in good grass and fenced Price 1 2 per aero: a bargain. 943 PO CENO.- Nice Little Farm of 21 acres in crops, grass. &c.; good five-roomed Cottage and outhouses, which, with 4 cows, dairy utensils. &c, &c, is now offered for £300 situate just at Pokeno Station. (803) PROSPECT TERRACE.—Handsome Villa of Rooms and Porch; fitted with Cupboards, Dresser, Registered Grate, Oven, &o; good well and tank, nice garden, well-stooked. £360. (728) PUKKKOHK. - Splendid little Farm of 105 aoies: Mnall piece of bu«h ; subdivided mto paddocks, so : grand stream of water through the property : goc<d House 6 rooms fiuiry. stoc-yard, &c. Price only £S00: part cash iDTiii * PAPARAT - VALL <Y,MAU"OAT (WHIEI —1.3 acres Unimproved Bush Land »t £2' per acre (972) R MaR MA.-160 acres good mixed Land a shot distance fromDrury Cheap at £3 in* per Kcro. < rji RAZORBACK-48 Acres Good Land, 26 ames in grass; cottage of three rooms, cow-shed piggery, &c.j never-failing supply of water.' Price, only £200. /B7^l SE ' .KIEL! I VIEW. Claremont-street-Veran rlah Villa of 6 rooms, in good order, fitted with cupb-arda. dresser, register, oven tank. wt;ll &c.; good garden Chean n^M ST. MARY'S ROAD corner of DuWin-strce? _ House of 5 rooms and scullery, and 2 rooms detached; gas, tanks, &c. Price £565. TAMAKI EAST- Compact little Farm of^n acres, of which 30 acres are in grasi Gar <3er n-.d orchard; good piece of bush, and a rl" ;:al supply of water Houss of 7 rooms P;";Dle. shed and sundry outbuild ings. JM in good order. iqiol VII WRO, JA.N'DTHK TERRACE MOUNT X-DMS -A First class Residence of7room? complete with every convenience; well laid g^n 0Ut S H Senrv?ew frUit ™* VIKW ROAD MOUNT KDENT.-5 minute', from Railway station — A new 6-n-on.ed Two-Gtorey Building, verandahs, bath-room wuter laid m : fruit trees and venerii bo house Business for sale. First-class opcor cc^PricronlylsOOl7 g °°d pa*in* c°«- WHANGAREI - 12il acres Improved Ijmd : small piece kauri bush; Lot 51, Taurs^a! WH * VGARHI,- Improved Farm of 143 aorea orchard; dwelling house Cheap, £6Wi WHANG-RRlH«!AD^—Paruaß»y-60a^s. part in grass and kauri; homestead farm • good road. Pi ice. £-'2' «r.> WH TvWH TA. _ Waipa River -W0 'acre* Improved Farm : first-class residence; good orchard; charming property Price & 100. WELLINGTON - STREET. - Comfortable Verandae Cottage of 4 rooms, in good con dition. Room und.Tnoath for good work shop. Price, only £3 0 (91t) D. F. EVAN S, Fotjse, Land, and Kstatk agent. Land Mart —Qneen-etrea