CHASING BULLS

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6573, 7 February 1925, Page 8

CHASING BULLS

WHARF LABORERS BUSY “INTO PARLIAMENT HE WOULD GO” Two bulls displaying a decided aversion to an enforced sea trip broke loose from the s.s. Gale at the King’s Wharf at a late hour on Tuesday evening, and with a fine disregard for the fact that pastures in Wellington are not easily attained, made straight for the city, pursued by an anxious of wharf labourers. The animals, which were being place 1 on the vessel for dispatch to Lytte ton, showed some sagacity, or at le:.st intuition, in their preferment of a constitutional to a cathedral city. After a circuitous chase along main thoroughfares and through winding streets, the pursuers and pursued w re located near the Thorndon station. Here one was effectively harbored into a pen at the station, but the other, showing a political turn of mind, made in the direction of Parliament Buildings. Here, followed like some Parliamentary aspirant for unrelenting hecklers, the animal was overtaken. Willing to fight to a finish, the “political bull” set a determined front in Hill street. There being nothing for it but to put an end to the life of this annoyance, a rifle was procured and a finish put to his struggles. This demise was brought about at the end of a fight for freedom, but was, indeed, somewhat more violent than that apportioned to those who usually seek to make battle in the shades of this venerable pile.