AN ALARMING JOKE.
Sir William Harcourfc, on March 23i was the object of an offensive, if not alarming practical joke. A package which afterwards turned out to be a card-board haberdasher’s box, about a foot square and a couple of inches deep, tied up securely in brown paper*, and addressed to “the Eight Hon. Sir William Harcourt, M.P., House of Commons,” had been delivered at the Parliamentary Post office, and was forwarded to the Home Secretary’s residence, when Sir William Harcourt, noticing that the parcel was heavy, resolved to have it opened by the police. When the string was cut, and the box opened, it was found to contain a rusty percussion pistol, apparently loaded, uncapped, with a broken lock, accompanying it a sheet of paper bearing the, words, “The first instalment of the Arms Act. —From an Admirer of your Policy.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2541, 13 May 1881, Page 2
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142AN ALARMING JOKE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2541, 13 May 1881, Page 2
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