A £500 Deception.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 522, 23 October 1890, Page 3

A £500 Deception.

Tub Wild West Show took nearly £5OO from Palmerston. The Times thus relates the expei iencn of th se who went by train from Manawa’u;—When the train arrived at Palmerston at ten minutes past eight, or ten minutes after the hour the show was to open, the visitors had the pleasure of finding that the tent waa not erected, and had to do a wander about till had past nine, when the tent being put up, tha management permitted the crowd to roll io. Then they had only an hour to wait, as the first entry into the ring look place at 10 30. At 11.15 the the band played, to the utter astonishment of the audience, God Save the Queen. It would have almost been advisable to have altered the.reading of the anthem to “ God Save the Manager,” as a loud and prolonged howl fol lowed the tune. Colonel Gorton, ever ready to face an enemy, immediately jumped into ’he ring, and with righteous indignation declared the show a swind’e, and demanded ’he money to be re'Ufned to the audience. Mr Southley Baker followed and addressed the crowd upon their rights, and soon the . ring was a mass of seething and excited victims, and loud demands were made for the Manager, Remembering that the charge at the doors was 6? and that astute individual did not answer to the call, and the bandsmen finding that their blow might be responded to by another kind of blow, wisely tucked their instruments between th°ir legs and “ bobbed down serenely ” under the tent.