EFFIGY BURNING.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 300, 4 September 1874, Page 4

EFFIGY BURNING.

(From the Auckland Star, August 24.) OiP Satarday night the streets of Adffiraiic.%ere by one 'of those popular demonstrations which not unusually mark strong political indignation. < Shortly before nine o'clock, . the crowds begam to'finove towards Upper .Qaeen-street, aod sopn tbat pofto^ortfiß?cJrjrghfire^ i?aef choke, /nji and impassable with an .amused and excited crowd. Presently torches were seen gleamiog, and -an: express van appeared bearing %ores that to the peppj^ for a time seemed, real. The horse was draped io black, and on bim ing^^enWkhbte ' T^senapjance tb that statesman. Mr Yogel was bareheaded, his7h|iir o^a«c i tej-i/-ticaUy parted io.the front on the waggon stood Mr Reader Wood, and>by his aide a figure bearing not a bad resemblance tp k Mr William Bn^klji^d. y f^_n -jtbe ; rear , stopd two otfier figures, one representing in face . and figure Mr r Creigbton,^ and by hia side a 'somewhat gaubt figure with the rig-^^fean/i iijoldiDg* an eyeglass .- to his ] eyft^pd^i^iJie left a pail. This figure bore tbe name of Mr Luckie.* The figcrreaicwerevaH 4ife-sire, and being properly i) clothed, and, ezoeptiog the leading figure^ having hats" feomewhat baMtft-ai on xhbir heads, presented the moat grhlesqtfe-appeirahbel The pose J ot Mr::-: Vb'|eii would' make Solomon' laogh.6-^hw^Ptie&ier's Jl left 7 hand was fastened to the reins, and he had some loose attaebment to the tail-board >bf the vehicle, so that his. motions were free a^d-liraiieded. He ; swayedl^ijrward on the horse's neck, then swung* opHsajeitj<)il.y, while: .his i right arm - Irom some peculiarity in the elbow-* joip^BWung ont from lime to time at rigfet ymsJes.-aa jf he were addresaiog * b *tß*W&<M jflie motion nf the horse's head on the^pini^made him, appear as. if he was Jriying. like, fpry, and ; with tub . pr?torical ( demonstrations of the right arm the effect was Indt-scribabjy amosinfo JBtfr Reader wood' stood' np majeStichif^, J thW motion . of 'the vehicle max^hftn'nod hfs head atUKe ppbple - as if in disapprobation. Mr Buckland looxefa*BteTft.' aid^fiSrce. "Mr Creipton appeared? id fa'aVg * his head, and keep his bat down over his eyes. Mr; Luc^w^fSp^ejiow^ propped /the ---pail shortly after starting^. hut he continued tothe IflaKtlddkSdgi through the eyeglas^gtlifaa people who surged and swetled'around the cart. By the time the process idn h«d renchedithe* Barrack square, proximity to the Premier had lerf theeirowd to* undue familiarity withjMr YogeJ^apd several, bad; been lighf ' ing matches' and poking them against hiETcfolhihg. At length these amateur attempts disturbed the order of the programme, -Jdr, ihe fire meeting the co#BtiiJijbTe^-j^ the premier w^itomedJately.'jQ a blaze. . The drapei y on the horse also caught, and for. a moment Hop Ctwo there, was a risk' of the-animal being burned. With diflficolty they severed the : couplings, and tbe blazing minister-was flung to tbe gfßm i k>ii r^\i*cky The procession pr.oce|ded f le^yrb^ Mr Yogel. to his •^^nSPhlj^ 1 ?? Bt ! U -woKing- back through bis eyeglsss, as if -in regret tbat^iioj^deaths they should ' thus be divided. On Mr Yogel touching earth he was rnshea 'on. by the crowd, ,who struggled arouod his blazing form. At length one caught him by, the arms, and another by the hind leg,: and, like a*obkbiwtf>sobpiin£ star, the Prime *^MfiMss?H*°P in g heavenward, c #!PJt?-9R n %■* ! ths sward with a ibquder iog. thud. Mr Yogel burned well, and long after all his followers had been consumed a crowd stood around bia^blbsingremains, ; the fumes wttereof *4bey < persistently affirmed - were distinctly sulpburoua. After Unshipping the Premier the procession bad proceeded, bnt it was soon apparent that tbe impatience ,. of the crowd manifested by sticks and other missiles POT.qJB.i-** tfa B heads of the figures, would ?iiot .enable the conductors to csM^ta^^ the original plao. The s ISf B''^8 ' '^h :0 ropes and hooks, were among the fornishings of the 1 funeral m M nt flaniea rouniog up ihe amateurs we^tfa'gain at work, and Hn afc *he legisU^rs musHie taken to earth, o^W^de-siruciionof the equipage would &&-&""• *" A ! ,read y the form of Mt "Woorl was wreathed in" blazes', and efforts were made to.d&tach bim from tbe fixings. B> < preserved a 'sublime indifference, and when -.- dismounted and borne aloft.itf procession, supported by two bearers, each ■ .holding, a leg, he moved not a riuscle. At'/ length he was seen shoofing >sky ward,. , the. dripping tar making, bim unpleasant to his bearers. Mr Buckland was brought to . ,egfth wrapped iti fire.' He burned with rapidity, so. that nobody «S«|^eaE I}iii|.']; Jo a few minutes he -#^^|^sgmed- . Mr Creighton, after beJß^ibalierecf a 4»*j . »as : .lef| to burn oxmrtpcoxna.. MrLatki^ kept his eye%tol last/ancT eve^ when his head waslinocked'off by a back ban der from aome-entbusiasiic admirer.of.a free pr Ss_t3a yssi^ baQd -^ tt l b^ the -Q/oVnib [= s opnoßite, to where the 'eye ouglftPaj^^* tff Lockie burned slowly and died tifta? si The last dyib^ speech of eacb, as welftis ribe gallows and ropes waa ia readiness? bat, owing to tbe earnestqeiit'oftliaaiatearaesiatante, the J»«ta#^llrV mm curtailed. !■*■...-,-. V