OUR DAILY FEATURES

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12259, 24 February 1937, Page 2

OUR DAILY FEATURES

A PAGE FROM THE PAST [ Tauranga 50 Years Ago 1 Extracts from the Bay of pi e Times of February 21, ISS7, rotul fellows; — ’ 1 as "The larrikins have boon at the’ old games again during the last fe*nights, and several orchards hav suffered from their depredations’’ 6 “A fisherman died lately down i Bevovina. leaving behind him a gaily collection of furniture, fishinnets, some antique shotguns, and tw’ brace of rusty horse pistols. „\ s had no relatives in the colony, «,! Clerk of Petty Sessions, as agent h the curator of Intestate Estates, toot possession of t lie property and adver Used il for sale. The furniture ana hailing tackle were soon sold off, th» firearms being served till the 'lasf Now gentlemen, said the auction' oer, here you have a superb collet lion of shooting irons, and if any o’ you are troubled with hen r'oos’ robbers, 1 coniidently advise you go in for one of these , good oldfashioned horse pistols. See here" ho said, cocking the pistol he had "hi hand, though they look old they ar" in first rate--Hang! and a shower oi slugs from the accursed firearm sent the Sunday bell-topper off the Mayor who happened to he stun ding by, into i a million fragments across the room Carry me home, carry me home' If feebly implored the Mayor, the irfernal thing has blown out my i brains.”