STRANGE PROCEEDINGS.

Evening Star, Issue 4087, 1 April 1876, Page 3

STRANGE PROCEEDINGS.

The following is a description furnished by a correspondent who was present at the northern Wairoa regatta, Kaihui;—“The proceedings at Maungawhare for a period of forty-eight hours were most disgraceful amongst j the bushmeu and gum-diggers. It was beyond anything that can be realised, and will be a lasting infamy to the grogsellers. Men maddened with drink fought to time, naked, like wild beasts, and no attempt was made to stop them; on the contrary, they were encouraged. Saturday was little better, and many, when their money was spent, attempted to return home in their frail .boats and. were swamped, but fortunately were " rescued. Sunday culminated, however, in the death of 'a bushman named Charles Adamson, who came up to Kaihui in an outrigger skiff about three o’clock in the afternoon, pretty well ‘ tight,’ and haying a bottle of grog with him/* •He started' immediately after for the bush with a mate named Nooman, who was dead drunk in the bottom of the boat. Adamson pulled away steadily with several boats close after. Not an ; hour had elapsed when tidings came' that he had fallen out and was drowned, in : close proximity to a boat containing five per-

sons; most of' whom were ' drunk.' and £ think incapable of making any great exer tion to rescue him, as th’ey were drily eighty vards off when they heard a cry in the (fiber loaded boat. Some one was playing a concertina, and it is said-that Adamson got up to dance, .and fell clean put. Npoman was not 'awafe- ofAdamsoh’s absence* until 1 he ivas awakened by off the other boat. It is a wonder that scores were apt jlrownedi'pnC boat load after another tailibg £rW&y with all- theT Tu&ti more or v teas uiid er |be influence of liquor. Such scenes are too common here-on holidays. They are un- ' paralleled, perhaps, m : the Southern hemisphere.” - •| - ' ■.

!, ■" Conee tfat’ on this bOsOrk-’* said the shirt to InefliatJiron/ a “ ; ' ■■ : *■

I Th , w 13 leap year.” said pussy-cat, as.she jum> ed out of the back window and scrambled iip on to the woodshed to take her part in th« tinging. ■ •; v r- , jrj i The Duke of Edinburgh has, it is said, are markable memory; ; After seeing a play performed once, he can repeat neariy every word nextmprnlng. , . ...... i .The latest sensation is the birth bf an infant in the theatre there. If its natal sarroandings have anything to do with its sub-' sequent career, how ttrahy a private boxbn the ?af -the poor child is ! destined to ’ have in the family circle. ' ;>

: Unb of the society boys in - Washington,' According to a corespondent, wears his hair & la Pompadour: “It is rolled back from his foreheid over a cushion, or what the girls call a rat,’ His necktie, gloves, and low shoes, are fau tleas; and he is. altogether, the most darling exquisite we have. Ke is very fastidiom and critical about the toilettes of the young ladie< whom he honors ivith a dance. . His maimeftlate >s polished as h|s boots, and the bagginess bf'bis trous rs about his dainty feet have caused the suggestion to be made, that they should be -tied- back like the ladies’ skirts.”