BRUNSWICK HALL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1307, 24 January 1868, Page 2

BRUNSWICK HALL.

A STRIKING SCENE.

DuEiNG the second part of the entertainment in the Brunswick Hall last evening an incident occurred which, though it created considerable amusement for the moment, terminated in a scene of a more striking and effective character than could either have been desired or anticipoted by its author. Mr. Walter Sherwio. had just concluded his favourite song, " I'm a Simple Muleteer," when some eccentric vegetarian sitting in that airy portion of the house devoted to the " gods," perhaps carried away by the graphic and natural rendering of the song, or in the abstraction of the moment, mistaking his offering for the more acceptable, though, perhaps, less useful and edible one, which politeness prescribes for such, occasions, threw a bunch of carrots upon the? stage, most probably as provender for the interesting qnadruped referred to by thfc singer. The transition from the charms of melody ta the stern realities of agriculture was too much for the house, and as the inviting bunch of luxuries lay ostentatiously on the,stage, the risible faculties of the audience had full play. However, the entertainment proceeded, and. the affair was almost forgotten, when suddenly the house was startled by a disturbance in the gallery. Itappears that the individual for whom this generous offering was intended failed to appreciate the motives of the donor, and instead of takingthe " praktical goak" good humouredly, selected an individual whom he suspected to have perpetrated it, and proceeded to pour out the vials of his wrath by operating upon him pugilistically. There was quite a sensation throughout the house while this "striking" scene was beiug enacted, and the feminine portion of the audience was thrown into an alarming state of perturbation. The object of the attack received a rather rough handling, and was ejected from the theatre in a decidedly undignified manner. We hear that the episode will lead to legal proceedings, and it is said to be extremely probable, although the agricultural offering was indignantly rejected, that another well known herb, extensively patronised hy the natives of Cambria, may have to be digested.