John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, proposes to start from San Francisco for Australia iu April next for a sparring tour. He wishes to meet MMer or an? other Australian boxer. This is an example of how welshers are treated in England. The London Keferee savs " The throngs which pour into Doncaster from the factory towns for fifty and sixty miles around are veritable savages. Recently I saw them strip a man stark naked—this is no figure of speech; I mean stark naked—and then chase him across the fields at. the back of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, urging him on with thick sticks ahd pelting him with stones and clods and brickbats and anything else that iiselt in the way of missile. T.iis was simply because he was suspected of b> ing a wclfber One or two others caught in the act, lav about in the road directly after the L ger with such marks on their vile co piMcs a* will not be rubbed - if this side of < temity."
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Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 255, 9 January 1886, Page 4
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170Untitled Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 255, 9 January 1886, Page 4
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