Fighting Bandsman.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 193, 19 August 1904, Page 2

Fighting Bandsman.

LOOK FOll TROUBLE IN WOOD. VILLES, v and get ur. : ~i (I'er Press Association.! • . WOODVILLE, Augufet |tj There was a disgraceful gctaa. .« ' railway station here "ciTMiftQ)i<j|t the "'sit of the Austral Buard« Baud t 0 Woodville. ban* arrived yesterday they marched ud. .roni the station to the town, no* on the way met Somerville's 'bus driven by Eccles. The latter pulled, off as far as jiossiMe, b|u-t the band, (lid not e a se off at all, and one nietnIxt flourished aJI instrument in tha? |ucc of one of the horses, causing; it to sivorve. Kccles lathed out wlthi his whip. At a concert given, lastt night further reference was mads Ux the incident by the bandsmen, who ipoke of Eccles as "a contemptible iuir," etc. This morning at the railway stallion the Austral Band looked for trouble and got it. Ono ol : heir best fighting men hit Eccles on [ tlie cheek. Eccles retaliated, and a light ansued. A\\ Austral basdsjuim referred t 0 the Woodville people er 'a set of dirty dogs," Mxt promptly laid law by »hj stmrfy The finally took tefuge la .vj, train. Considerable disgust la > » at- the ■ behaviour of lbe bur n Woodville, awl it is W?dhr cerlaln members of the brought to book for *sm»>