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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 143, 2 June 1911, Page 8

Correspondence from Unionist is held over owing to the matter he refers to being still before the court. At the Hastings District High School this afternoon at 3 p.m.. the children were assembled round the flagstaff, and the usual ceremony imiuent to the King’s Birthday was gone through. The cadets under Capts. Hudson and Cullen, marched past and saluted the flag, after which the National Anthem was sung and cheers given for the King. The chairman of the school committee, Mr. G. Land, addressed the children, stating that the ceremony was being held to-day instead of on Monday, and promising a much longer and more varied ceremony on Coronation Day. The pupils were thru dismissed until Tuesday morning. A monkey, the property of Mr. R. Warren, escaped from durance vile this morning, and provided amusement for a large crowd in Karamu road, Hastings. Jackogot off his chain, evading all efforts to recapture him, sought refuge on the summit of a telegraph pole, where, for some time, he was the monarch of all he surveyed. Eventually he was coaxed down from his point of vantage and threaded his way through tne crowd that scattered like chaff before the wind. In a spirit of bravado a semi intoxicated individual ventured too close, and had his thumb almost bitten off. At 3.30 the monkey was still at large, despite all attempts to lassoo him.