A Noveal Exhibition.
j It is perhaps hardly generous to give 'putiici t y :to anyone?s idiosyrioi'asies, (says the Wanganui Herald) but wheii they- take the form vaf-putiJiC; exhibition^ they' are. of openjb remark. O,n' Saturday eveniog: some gentleman, astranger to f;UM town, of Teutonic birth, gave a'cheap " show". i at: tbe corner 6f Ridgway-street and the Avenue. To: say that the illustrious stranger was i mad, is not of course our. businesßjjbut Bis actions certainly /wore a strange[aspect. Foiuting .he^yen^ardjj-.with his. |dgilr^-h v eV'W fc y u .^' > ,W v * 8 ' m stle3 a serenade attberabon. 'Having satisfieji himself m this direction, introduced' va'tiew-Sbrt^df instrument dj, means of tightening; his cheek -like a drum, and very dexterously playing a tune, to thb no small .amusement ot, the onlookers, who hadf Reached ' J nearly persons, I Sergt Bisset, with .that .callousness to i h'igh^ aft 'BO : usual . ihe 'gentl.e~ ! men of tbe cloth, did Wt see the exhibition from a popular education point, of view/«nd gently withdrew him from the public gaze; i: !
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 149, 1 June 1883, Page 3
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172A Noveal Exhibition. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 149, 1 June 1883, Page 3
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