The Gunpowder Plot!!!

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 909, 15 January 1881, Page 5

The Gunpowder Plot!!!

An awful and atrocious piece of villany has, through the instrumentality of our chief Magistrate, just come to light. At precisely 14 minutes and 61 seconds past eight yesterday evening, there might have been seen seen two youths, evidently the bearers of intelligence of the utmost vitality, wending their way hastily in the direction of the Municipal Buildings. These were the Discoverers of a Plot Which in horror of detail completely eclipses that of the ancient Guido. 400,000 Bounds of Ammunition Secreted T Yes! Secreted! in a hut at the Waikauae; this was the intelligence brought by those perspicuous youths, the saviours of their country. The Gallant Capting Was equal to the horror of the situation! After thoroughly expectorating in a somewhat hesitating manner, he suddenly resolved, and yelled decisively, Shoulder Arms ! Order Arms ! Fix Bayonets! Present Arms! Let’s go and Seize It! God Save the Queen !! ! And forthwith a band of the flower of Gisborne’s chivalry, heedless of the danger of the awful emergency, Stormed the Stronghold T Carried it by Assault T And the whole of the enemy’s camp with all its baggage, munitions of war, provender, and lavender: horse, foot, artilleiy, and marines, by a series of the most brilliant movements, became ours, and were subsequently deposited in a place of safety. So far, so good ; let us wipe our powderbegrimed brows ; let us thank our stars that none of us are killed, wounded, or even missing. It is indeed a vouchsafing and a Glorious Victory. Now let us bend every nerve to solving the horrid mystery, and let the fell terrors of the law be visited on those who, but for the intervention of the bravest of the brave, would have laid our town in ashes, and of ourselves made hashes !!!— [Communicated].