DISGRACEFUL HOW IN OAMARU.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2192, 29 March 1880, Page 2

DISGRACEFUL HOW IN OAMARU.

TOWN EDITION.

Last evening a disgraceful affray occurred in Trent street, Oamaru. It appears that a man of the name of Falls went to the house of a person called Hoskins and complained of the singing and noise of a party of women of bad repute till a late hour on Sunday morning, and told them that he would take steps to have them turned out of tire place. Hoskins struck Falls and challenged him to flight outside, and the women joined in beating him and his brother, who went to his assistance. Then a regular free light began with bottles, slicks, or anything that could be used as a weapon, and a crowd of some 200 people who were passers by in Thames street soon collected. Amongst the spectators there were numerous citizens on their way to church, and these must have listened with disgust to the language of the rioters, and witnessed with an equal amount of indignation such a scene in the principal street ot Oamaru on a Sunday evening. One of these gentlemen went to the police and a warrant was signed by a Justiccof the Peace for the arrest of the offenders, and Hoskins, with bis wife, Sarah Gormon, Jane Paul, and Anne Murdock, were lodged in gaol.—North Otago “ Times.”