Many who read the telegraphic message from Auckland in respect to the disgrace! ul treatment meted out to a Parliamentary candidate a low days ago could hardly credit that such hooliganism should have hecn permitted by the police to continue lor as long as it did. Such people would have been given similar grounds lor wonder if they uad sauntered on the Queen's wharf at five o'clock one evening recently, and witnessed the passengers by thoCorinthie descending the gangway. A crowd of between 200 and 300 found diversion in observing the long procession of newcomers, and among these onlookers were perhaps a couple of dozen young fellows who made themselves obnoxious by submitting each passenger as he or she came down the gangway to a running tire of more or less insulting remarks. At liist the remarks wOie mild enough, but as they raised guffaws of laughter from some spectators, they inrreased in number and became more and more personal, until no one was allowed to descend without running the gauntlet irl a chorus of coarse expressions, grossly vulgar in character. An official of the Shaw, Savill and Albion I'onrpany, becoming indignant at the. behaviour of this section of the crowd, appealed to » policeman to exert his authority in the direction of checking the. outrage, but up till the time a, 'Dominion' reporter left the scene, tho policeman' had declined to interfere. Sick Headache usually results from ■< disordered condition of Ihe stomach, and can ho corrected by taking a medium dose of Chamberlain's Tablets. Try them and bo convinced. When taken as soon as tho first indication of the attack appears they will greatly lessen its severity. For sale everyI whore. " 3
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Mataura Ensign, 7 November 1908, Page 3
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282Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Mataura Ensign, 7 November 1908, Page 3
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