DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF VOLUNTEERS.
(BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN COIIKKSrONDENT.) Auckland, Wednesday. ?\[n W. 11. I'oktkk, of the Ilailway Hotel, Mercer, writing to the .Star to-night, makes a strongly-worded complaint regarding the conduct of a number of volunteers passing through Mercer for the camp at Hamilton, lie says: "About forty or more rushed into the bar and jammed myself, sun and assistant into the far end so we could neither serve nor get out. While they had us so penned up, others walked oil a two-gallon jar of brandy and sovoral bottles of stout. During the time this was going on others were looting other mums. Out of one room they took a new accordlan, valued at III;, and also went through other parts of the house ;i,nd took everything they could put hands on, \ ; >ry:irl, meat, a'nd oa»» a quantity of milk that w; s set a.-idu for the morning. Not ennreot with what they were taking away, some of tliom actually took glasses from the counter and smashed them on the Hour." He states that men belonging to the Naval volnuteers were the ringleaders.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2619, 25 April 1889, Page 2
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183DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF VOLUNTEERS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2619, 25 April 1889, Page 2
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