THE LATE FRACAS AT THE THAMES.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4147, 28 November 1870, Page 2

THE LATE FRACAS AT THE THAMES.

We learn that much dissatisfaction is ex. pressed at the very garbled and untruthful accounts of the late fraca3 at the perform manco given by Mr. Heller, published by a contemporary. Our Thames correspondent informs us that at the R.M. Court there on Saturday Mr. Lasoellea called the Court's attention to a charge of assault preferred by C. Hillsden against J. B. Kersteman which had fljhalf fallen through on account of an informality of the summons. The defendant had used the opportunity thus afforded by leaving for Auckland on the previous evening. The assault took place at the Aoadeiny of Music on Thursday evening. Mr. Lascelles asked the Court to name a day when a summons in a criminal case would be returnable. Wednesday next was fixed upon, Tho Thames Star of Saturday evening says : —-''We dare say that a fr wof our readers I noticed the sensational telegrams published in yesterday's Herald in reference to the j fracas at the Academy of Music. It is suffiI cient to say of them that they display great imagination at a total sacrifice of accuracy. The origin was as follows : — The correspondent of the xierald — who would be invaluable on Lloyd's Weekly as a chronicler of 'red rain,' or a discoverer of ' three-headed calves ' (he could furnish one head himself) — saw the commencement of the disturbance, and, with praiseworthy sagacity, rushed headlong from the spot. Up Albertstreet and down Pollen-street he urged on his wild career, snatching short glimpses of his watch at the public-house lamps. In time he gained the telegraph office, and there with knitted brow and scratching pen, with splutterings of ink, aud murmuring of hasty phrases, he proceeded with his delightfully congenial task. The youth of tender years, employed by Government to telegraph English, heard the excited literary man's strange mutteringe, in which the words, 'Heller, lock-up, Smythe and Macdonald, policeman, blood,' and 'skittles,' were straugely mingled. Not doubting for a moment but theso meant some new ' Wonder,' he remarked to himself, 'Heller'a last trick J he has cut off the heads of Smythe, Mac, aud a policeman, deluged the stage with blood, and played at skittles with the strange materials.' The telegram. *»oon undeceived him, and in disgust he was heard to say as he worked the wires, ♦ Well, that cove is a fool.' We are iueUiied to coincide with the boy."