While the drill instructor of the Volun teers was putting the Featheraton men through the usual exercises on Monday evening (says the Wairarapa Standard) a woman entered the hall with a bottle of water, whioh she immediately commenced to throw over the instructor, and then before he could thoroughly understand the situation she pslted him with flour, which put quite a different appearance upon his regimentals, and caused him +o beat a retreat to the rear. Then the woman drew out a whip and invited the instructor to come outside, but he “ didn’t see is,” and promised her that he would see her in the Resident Magis trate’s Court. The incident caused great merriment to the Volunteers,
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 810, 9 September 1887, Page 20
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