Prohibitionists in Christchurch.
Disorderly Meeting in Cathedral Square. The Police Powerless. I I United Press A sooiation.l D CurtiSTCHUitcu, This Day. j A disgraceful disturbance occurred in j Cathedral Square last evening, when the Rev Leonard Isitt and Mr T. E. Taylor I essayed to address a large assembly on tho I Prohibition question. The police made an 3 attempt to quell the disturbance, but wore t powerless. The noise, jostling, cheering 3 and hooting lasted till about nine o'clock, I; when the Prohibitionists abandoned the attempt to speak. Tho whole affair has . caused great excitement.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXX, Issue 285, 2 December 1896, Page 2
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