EXCITING INCIDENT.
STREET-' DISTURBANCE CHRIST-- 1 , . :CHI?RCHV. }■»
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~ ChristohMrch; ,9.' , Something of a'disturbance took place in Cathedral Square to-nigh't,~ resulting in the arrest of; two men—one-'a seaman froih the Pyramlis, for being drunk trliilo in charge of a horse and for driving in ; a l ' reckless''and dangerous , mannerand, the" other atcivilian-fofr-jncfting' the. crowcl-'to re'T. sist the -polipe." ,'l'hel- trap,'. ihi;cq seamen more' or less intoxicated, had-been-carecring through the city.streets'tjiroughout tho early evening.'' arid', many '.collisions were narrowly avoided."' 'Tlio' : vehicle'' 1 Was' 1 stopped by the police;in'--Gat-hCdriU''Square, i and the-occivpaiit3 : ord<;red tfl get ;, outj'./-They"', refused." "'A ''sthig'glc : foHowedj*' ahtt. a'-largo ' orowd immediately congregated, 1 ' maiiy. siding' l with th'o men alld'hooting the''•poircc. " lii i the general.jneleq t.w0..0f-.tlie ; thr.ee men got j away, brit the''third' was'captured',, together with a young man who .liajl, been,' talcing "an active part ,in the "libst'il6" 1 d'ctnpnstxatioii.. The' crowd followed the; 'constables:'and' tho; prisoners to theJPolicp.Statibn,' l.ootiiiß ,-tlie', police and cheenng^thc-Nayy..
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 91, 10 January 1908, Page 4
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157EXCITING INCIDENT. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 91, 10 January 1908, Page 4
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