Served him Right.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 126, 23 April 1884, Page 2

Served him Right.

'-— '- — v?*- — '■ *■ * : [Wellington paper.] I Some excitement was caused m towb on Monday morning by a cistigation under the most approved principles adj» miuistered by Mr Gaorge Musyrove, of the tirm of Williamson, Garner, and Musgrove. It appears that a week or two ago one of the leading; ladies of th,o Comic -Opera Company received a letter containing most insulting proposals. A prominent member of the company, hearing of the missive, at once waited on thie person who brought it; but finding that the. ,- messenger (Wap evidently ignorant of, jthV' purport of the letter, the actor 'tafc&ined from kicking him downstairs. Mo further step*' were taken for a few dnyk, and the infatuated youth who id aaid to be connected with one of the banking institution,^: w,i9 probably hovering .m ;a slate of indecision whether Wtake silence n.» consent, or to congratulate himself, upon toe affair blowing over. But tUe' : manager had a rod m pickle for him, and' y esjterday rnorpjng ;M,r ; AAttsfgroye, ■ m£e> ing the amorous banker in* front of 'one 6f the city bunks, he at once, and without even ' By your leave,' knocked him down. The bmk clerk rose and was knocked down, again, and tins sqtjt of fun continued' for two or thr c minute?, until the coiDr batants were pirted. It is stated that ...the cjerkjiaa be njexpelled from a leading club m cohaeqfi'Tice of thr«?"lit£«r9!3Blultyf,