GLADSTONE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4306, 29 December 1892, Page 2

GLADSTONE.

(Our Own Correspondent).

Some' indulgers' in mischievous tricks, suspended the effigies of two old and well-known residents in public places a few days ago, and muob comment and enquiry as to the identity of tho persons .who played this objectionable joke 'has been caused. . It has been denied that there was , any malicious intent, but the likelihood of suchi doings causing illfeeling is evident to any sensible person, In . one case the resemblance of th» dummy figure to the man it was intended to represent, was so perfect that his. , wife; it is said, swooned on it, , There is some, indignation felt idkj| Gladstone,' at '■ the introduction, of auoh monkey tricks, '' ilmostenjoyablepicniowasheldat, Tupurupuru, yesterday, at which the. • settlors of Gladstone praoticajly extended i hospitable invitation to : all> comers. (y There; were, nearly;Wchundreo" people dp 1 the. soerie,. and with numerous : 'tr»pg * and:: torses, pioketed about, flags fij ing, and.Oar- . terton's Brass festivo.';Theday'sdoings.culmina'tbtli ' in an impromptu'dance in the even?- '■. irig in t&e Jniaw: Town Ha 11.," Thff ; v dance /was'a great"BMcega, : M£thfr;> Bind romained to proTidemuiio(ofX:;