AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Issue 1742, 22 July 1884, Page 2

AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.

The Thornhill (England) Local Boaid, who had a few weeks ago liokl a twenty-one hours' sitting, and were then unable to agree upon a chairman, commenced to hold an adjourned meeting at six o'clock on the citing of May 'l2. Throughout and the following morning thev contented themselves with talking over the deadlock in groups, and in the meanwhile partook of refreshment in two seperate parties or lay half asleep on the Board room floor, Ono membetu whose wife was vei-y ill, paired for an hour, and during the day personalities were freely indulged in. At night one of the party was out for a little time, and an attempo was made to get HlO members ready for voting, and this being foreseen by another member, he tried to lock the door to keep the rest outside, A member stripped off coat and challenged the would-be gaoler to a fight. At midnight pillows, rugs, and down quilts were sent in by the member's wives, and these were laid on the floor, and the jaded members threw themselves upon them, but little sleep could be got owing to the perambulating round the room of curious ratepayers and to the excessive heat, Boots, and fronts and ties were scattered and altogether the scene was a vory grotesque one. The fight was carried on with much stubborness, and one ' member journeyed 700 miles to be in attendance. The deadlock, howevoAL . came to an end on May 13, one of thSr members having to leave owing to the death of his wife, The sitting lasted forty-six consecutive hours, and resiiltsfi in the election of Mr John Fisher as chairman.