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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 336, 10 August 1889, Page 3

According to the annual sheen returns laid on the table of the House there has been during the year a large increase in the number of sheep in the North Island, amounting to about 200,000, while in the South Island there has been a decrease of 800,000. The total number of sheep in the colony in 1887 was 15,155.000, and in 1888 15,042,000, being a decrease of 118,000. Charging two shillings for admission to the pit of the Napier Theatre Royal does not keep out the baser sort if a judgment may be made by last Saturday evening’s semi riot. During the intervals between each act the most outrageous din was made, and the pit of the theatre seemed more like a menagerie of wild beasts than a' collection of civilised persons desiring to see an opera. As those who made the disturbance were neither drunk nor mad, and their apparel betokened a station in life that should ensure decorous conduct, the only inference possible is that their view ot what constitutes fun comes vary near to what is usually called blackguardism.