STREET ENCOUNTER.
A PBEMIER ASSAULTED. [united pbess association.] Received July 80, noon. Adelaide, July 80. On Friday night, the Premier, speaking at Port Fairy, in condemnation of the agitation against the State Advances Bill, referred sarcastically to Mr H. G. Sparks, manager of the South Australian Company, and a prominent opponent of the bill. Yesterday Sparks met the Premier in company with the Sheriff in Victoria Square. He accosted Kingston, and without \yarning struck him several blows with a whip stick. The Premier wrested the stick from his assailant and got in several blows himself, and a scuffle followed. The Sheriff and several bystanders dragged Kingston away by force, and Sparks drove off in a cab. The Premier's ear waa cut, but Sparks evidentally had the worst of the encounter. The Premier says he means to take no aotion as he is satisfied with what he gave Sparks. A WONDERFUL LABORATORY Is tbe stomach ; bow essential to health is tbe perfect performance of its various processes. When it is interrupted use Wolfe'o Schnapps.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 185, 30 July 1895, Page 2
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173STREET ENCOUNTER. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 185, 30 July 1895, Page 2
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