Free Fight in Waimate. GREAT EXCITEMENT.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 46, 15 September 1900, Page 2

Free Fight in Waimate. GREAT EXCITEMENT.

Yesterday a scene of great excitement took place in Qnoen Street opposite the Co-ope)vt;ve store. From the meagre particulars to be gleaned from the attitudes of the participants, onr reporter, who was cose at hau.f has been able to deduce the causi of the distressing quarrel. Twt dogs, one a rough haired coih with a white collar and the othe a rough haired collie wUhoi- , were discussing the Chinese question as far as it engaged the attention of butchers and allowed the canine race to annex meaty bones unobserved. The dog with the white throat remarked that the other would prefer someone else to annex the bones and he share them without risk. This led to hot growls, and finally the black dog snarled out " You're a pro-Chinee," and seized the other by the throat. Down they went to- argue the question, right into the mud the Borough Council keeps in the middle of the road. Instantly Queen Street had sprang from death to life, and every dog within sight was racing like one possessed to have a mouthful out of the black dog while L« was down. The cries of satisfaction and of pain brought the shopkeepers to their doors, and even the crowd which was on the street at the time, consisting of two women out shopping and a small boy returning from school, came over to see the fun. All went well with the ajlies till the black and white terrier ieized a leg of a friendly Power by mistake. This led to an animated disdussion, which ended in the terrier leaving tbe scene on three legs. He also left one haif an ear behind. Some other discussions took place of the same nature, and the many-colon r.ed bunches of hair scattered ropntf .much releived the monotony of the landscape. After a few more rolls - all together in the mud* the question seemed to be settled. The dogs Bought their previous occupations and the shopkeepers theifs ~ -and silence once more reigned supreme. , ' '

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