"MURDER" IN HASTINGS STREET.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3670, 19 April 1883, Page 3

"MURDER" IN HASTINGS STREET.

About 5 o'clock last afternoon no small degree of excitement was created in Hastings street in consequence of loud and i;.jn(iuuirti~ oi-ics of "Murder" which were \ hi-.-ird to proceed from tho dour of a certain Lord in tJ.o South Ward. Groups of people rushed to their doors, others flocked to vpird.s the scene of the supposed terrible i,raL*c<iy, wjiilo a certain prominent "mimber'of the foorco," with Unit commendable prompitude for which flic Constabulary jiave »ud.e tkejaselves famous, was to be

seen hurriedly forging his Avay along the strc.t with a st.uit stick grasped tightly in his hand, and visions of a " big case " and official distinction "in his mind's eye, Horatio." As soon, however, as the peace officer hove in sight the cause of all the commotion, who had meantime struggled out to tho footpath to give vent to his alarming exclamations, scrambled back into the hotel, where he subsided peacefully into a seat in the corner of the bar. Enquiry having been made into the man s extraordinary conduct, it turned out that he was in that blissful condition induced by a too frequent application to a pint pot; and, having received a gentle shaking ironi another person Avhose displeasure he harl incurred, the idea entered his mind that it was intended to prepare him for the undertaker. It is a great pity he did not continue his insane bawling for a few minutes longer, as in that case he might have had time to reflect on his conduct in the lockup last night.