The person who was selling at the show groumls and in the streets of Hastings a pamphlet entitle<l "Unauthorised Biography of Sir Joseph Ward" had his ardour most effectively cooled. He was parading Heretaunga street offering his abusive publication, when a bystander thrsw the contents of a bucket of beer-houso slops over him, greatly to the amussm-int of a largo and unsympathetic audience. Arrangements were made for the disfribu*"on of flowering plants from the London County Council parks to persons described in the official notice as " the respectable poor," who applied during the first few daxs ia October,
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Otago Witness, Issue 2955, 2 November 1910, Page 62
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