A POPULAR SINGER.
? - Auckland," January 6. " Sn enormous ' crowd assembled on the t'^een"- street- wharf late last night to wit)ss the bertibing of the steamer Mokoia, _ i anticipation' of -catohinflr -a glimpse of O'ara Butt, who, it had been announced, " .'wiis a. passenger. The crush was so greet ' that it was practically impossible for those people having business on board the steamer to make their way through. As the steamer came up to the wharf the wooden barricade • »t -the end of the outer tee of *he wharf : *as pushed down, and the mob simply haa - it all- Ha own- way, and took possession pf the tee. In the scramble several ladies, " 'who were present in large numbers, had their dresses 'and finery badly damaged; Clara Butb was not aboard, and so the ffiuyority. went horn© disappointed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 34
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137A POPULAR SINGER. Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 34
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