TAKEN DOWN A PEG.
A». a, pendanf; to, the, above,. l. .n»y ; £? tai k the.following little episode, which occurred not *C hundred miles fron^Palmerston.- Atj. a meeting held within the last, week, one gentleman newly arrived- from 1 Wellington, put iv an appearance with, alj. , the., gityr and? gloss of metropolitan, Mrqgance' and as-, sumption, dazzling the eyes of his bucolio.. brethren, He censured thift proceeding, found fault with, that, and suggested thai ofther. ; sneering, at the creditors and snub-, bing the. clerk. When, he. had fairly exhausted his complaints and taken his seat with an air of self-compjacence, that official, astonished his weak, rierv.es. . by demanding, his proof of debt, ' and as it w.as not forth?: coming, informed him that he was an intruder, at the meeting, and. politely, ordered him to, take. a back seat. The. order w.as. at once, obeyed, the collapse was most complete, and Cit was a eilefaSrHjjt di^ust»«l spectator. .*
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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 107, 14 January 1880, Page 2
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