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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13796, 8 July 1908, Page 9

n ; •• ,v Considerable commotion was caused px _ 'Queen-street yesterday afternoon by. .the*, . eccentric behaviour of an elderly individual,'- -. who wore' on. hi* breast the . King'* '■ '■ colours,. «nd carried in his band t -,' a '-stout cudgel, which he whafcd - menacingly round his bead. The stick -; _ •gyrated to'the_aceotopaa;ittientr"ef;yr torrent. - • of ■ threats,' couched "in unple'ai^tl;y.l.uiid-;;: , language;•' against ,ffiys^'olte"iadiHri- v . : . dual to whom the veteran apparently" bwed - " a grudge, ' A large crowd speedily collect-: .'-- ed, but kept a respectful dietance fromtb^; ° stick, which went on.revolving' with iv«fe-^ :' ]-. city and regularity that a. champion club-'" awmger might have envied.. Ihe stick- " ' swinger ahrutly stopped swinging to hurl a challenge at the . jeering crowd .to ■ fight. : ,.. the lot of them one after the- othor'ano: a, : . bystander snatched the stick andean:" yTbti'j'.. - old man pursued'" with a; Ji'mblene6a sur- ': prising in one of his' years,. recovered .'hi* '- weapon, and dealt a blow at the humorist :■ that would have cured him of his fondliesS r,: : for practical jokes' for some: time to- com*; '-'.■}} if it had reached the into v malt; Jus*, .v- - when things were beginning to look serious •' ;J y - » policeman hove m : sight, and hied 'he ; ancient one gently away. ;' „h-: . _"'' /, ' .' Mr. W. J. Napier has written,to y ., \ Minister for Marine, M^.yt^ig**»!#;•;;; i buoys be placed at the "Waiwerft ;W»n« ■;-.-, ;? -if^jl .. - ;■ .. . -• 7' 1