MR GRIGG AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.
Ashbukton, August 31,
Ou Saturday night lust the effigy of Mr John Grigg, the member for Wakanui, was mounted in a hand-cart drawn by two men, who were so made up as to take tho form of horses, and conveyed through the streets of Ashburton in front of a torchlight procession. In the course of the march the processionists halted at the residence of Mr Ivess, tbe lat© member, calling for three cheers for that gentleman, and three groans for Mr Grigg, whom they called a traitor, Tne effigy, after being carried round the various streets, wr« brought to Quill’s Hotel, where it was torn limb from limb by a few excited members of the community. The mutilated parts were collected, re-stuffed, and carried to the front of the Somerset Hotel, where they were burned, amidst the exultatious of those present.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 7270, 12 September 1884, Page 8
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