TERRIBLE PRIZE FIGHT NEAR LONDON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2726, 15 October 1887, Page 2

TERRIBLE PRIZE FIGHT NEAR LONDON.

[ • A most determinedvpriza fight came : off'on Auitust 11th, -wt.tbe house of a well known sportstraii; within' a' mile of Shorcditch C!hiir'ch,.'botweeu Georgo Maboney,' aliasi ttßrnvo 'Uti,". aged 25, and William;:Perrin, alias,"Old Un." Muhoiiey'B seconds were Bob Preaton and, Jack Hicks, and Perrin was seconded by Jainus Flyuq, andAlf Crisp. .The men fought iu a most dctjeraitotl manner for ut» hour and ' ibree.quarters, and at the end of forty N xhmJ 1 rounds oach wore bo terribly ' punished, that the soqonds stopped the ;6ghW : . Mahoney was rendered atone Wind in one'eye, and' had one of hia eyes ripped, bjion. When the fight was stopped it was impossible to! say which man had the advantage, \ This is the third time the men have! met, and each fight ended in a draw/ Mahoney works aa a sawyer in the' vicinity of Hoxton, Perrin is U. years old, and works as a painter, Thi* stakes were £lO. a side. "After fight, there was a champagne supper ' at the hostelry where the encotfiter took place, the combatants sittinpfdo bysido. Jem Smith, ;the champion, waß present both at the fight .and the dinner.

"__S9eoflclEditioL_ Tho Maaterton Library has just received an addition of fifty liooks to its catalogue, principally works of fiction. Mr W. 0. Buchanan will on the next . | Bitting day ask tho Minister for Public ■ ( Work's whether tlio Government will i 'the' freieht on firewood, from. the ,]., : .™iwrapa, . - - ; ; ,„ i..- .'. Mr EiTayler of the local -Fruit'Depot ;.• • - • announce a'tiie-arrival of the firjst'copsign- '.';•• merit' of new p'otKtoea, and rWu'barb, also ,v 1-. ORtngesy •bananas; pines ■'cocoanuts, and • "j..'.apples/-:'"' •'- '.-•' ■'"'' • '.,'. ; .... . ,'••. A list o£ freehold propofties.for sale in' '' ;;. Stte'te'rioii, appear in cinotlierc.olamtV from '/ t -; Brown and Co., auctiou.eers,"• '•''"'■ •y'kke'rs, mid property a'/ents, who 'have ..also money to lend, iii sums of LSO and . ..'"•'.npifards; ••: ■". Notice is given in. -another- column byTown Lands Trustees in «*~*HRe matter of a Hill entitled, " The Mas.•.JdwtonTown Lands Management Consoh- . .datioh Bill," which is intended to repeal general Acts passed in and since 1871. •.. Copies ot the proposed. Bill are deposited in the office of the Examiner of Standing Orders and the Resident Magistrate's Court, Master'on . Perauns.requiring window'glass, paporhaii«ing3, white.leads, &&, are referred tjUm advertisement in another column ip| Mr R. Martin of the To Aro Paperhanging Warbhouso, "■ MiUincrs-atrcut, Wellington. Mr Martin has gained a reputation both in Wellington and the Wairarapa for the excellence of his Block, and persons in want of anything in con- . nection with his business can bo confidently recommended to him. "■"•■' t Information has been received by Inspector Browne from Constable Ecclnton,- ; - Greytown, of the death by accident of a Native child named Tawlmtoro Kingi, Vfhoßo parents lived at AYaihemM. It ■ appears that the mother of the child and two other children were in a buggy driving to the Lower Valley when tho horse .bolted. Mrs Kingi jumped out of the Jveliiclo with the child, but stumbled, and \fo child fell, and its head was literally smashed on (ho road. An inquest is to be held to-day. . Mr Raymond Webbo, business manager of the Silk Stocking Minstiel Company, has arrivtd in' -Mattei-ton, and made' arraneements for thflwippearancc qf the • 'eouij>anv at the Theatre .Royal on Mou ; . •■day,24th.insfc. 'Mr Wobbe.Ht will bV. ■ remembered,'piloted tho " Happy-Hours' tany through'the Wairarapa a fow ago when they hadamost-success-iir. If iho present company is as good as the one Mr Webbe last introduced to üb, there is a treat in store for : the Wairarapa playgoers. ' ... On Thursday afternoon, Mr Beckett, proprietor ol the Carterton paper, was '" assaultedbyMrGeorge Duller, butcher of that township. From what we can gather, MrDelJer, hearing that the paper '• in question was to contain, certain com- • ■;, ments on the "ecent sad catastrophe in •••;.iCarterton, called at the office .and-. requested Mr Beckett to'suppress, all' ■.... reforence-to■subjects that might cause . unnecessary pain to the family and con- ; nectiona of the deceased. .On the paper' ■ • being published, the comments were Ajfeuzht "J Wr Deller to be uncalled for, .■fflWicethc assault.'' We understand will be adjusted before I he K.M. on Tuesday next. ■. Between seventy and eighty, persons . assembled at tho Thoatro Royal last even- ;: ing when a testimonial was presented to ■Mi'ArW. Hogg in recognition of the manly honest and straightforward manner in which he had contested the late ' election. ' The chair wab taken .by Mp fioldaway; MrT. G. Mackay presented Mj|g|log'g with a parse of: sovereigns, r«|pin~ address signed by eighteen elec- . toracomplimenting him on,his conduct , during Uncontest, and expressed- ii 'hope . that ho, would again bo found, fighting in ' the liberal iu'torest. Mr Hosrg in rcturn- . fog thanks reviewed tho proceedings of lato election and said liis Tiuui mooting was one of tho best he held during the campaign although ho had to submit tb ,an hours political catechism by a station- . overseer, who boasted trjat ho waß going to demolish tho speaker, but who was - - glad to leave the meeting before it wbb oyer, aB he (MrHogg) got' the hoarliest applause ar.d vote of thaulis from the .; people that he experienced anywhere. In :- .jfinclusion lie inoved a vote of thanks to ;■ wiaolep'ioncoinmitteoior the disinterested manner iii which they had worked for him, ..,Mr. Woodroofo briefly addressed , the iiieetiiig;-principally on Borough ■■" matters, said that Mr Caselberg was the worst Mayor the Borough had seen, having during his Mayoralty run them into debt about £IO,OOO. for gas, £BOOO : for a Firo Engine, besides numerous othjypiings, anil would leavo thoin hearty m debt. Tho motion wbb then put aiid carried and the meeting closed with a voto of tlianks to tho Chairman.