Spanish Bull Fight.
(Per Mail Steamer),
Madi-.id, May 20. Tho Spanish fetes virtuuhy culminated to-day in a royal bull fight. There have boon frequent exhibitions of this brutal and degrading sport during tho past fortnight, but this was a show unexampled in variety, illustrating the stylo of baiting and killing bulls and revealing picadores and mutador-s in costumes of unwonted picturcsqucness. Tho fiercest bulls and most agilo artists of the arena had been rescrvod for this supromo occasion, and there was a vast concourso of spectators in gala dress, with women arrayod in the height of Spanish fashion. The King himself was prcsout as patron of the national sport, and a special guard formed a cordon for his protection. Everything was done to dignify tho ovoDt, but except when viewed through Spanish eyes, it was a terriblo and barbarous spectacle, involving tho torture of the maddened bulls, the disembowelling of many horses, and tho display of tho morbid bloodthit--tincss and evil passions of an immense throng of spectators. Tho Queen Regent hadincurred unpopularity by setting her face strongly against the brutal pastime as unworthy of a Christian nation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7319, 12 June 1902, Page 4
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188Spanish Bull Fight. Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7319, 12 June 1902, Page 4
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