An Unrehearsed Comedy.

Manawatu Times, Volume VIII, Issue 355, 4 September 1883, Page 2

An Unrehearsed Comedy.

Coming home from San don last night, the Town Baud met with a novel expsrienca which will, we presnm ■, be performed as a burlesque at their next em' rtainment. It appears that the pr-rty started from Satidon aba ut < ie o'clock, having t> put the schu ilhouse m oider, and attend to »ther little matters, but did not call at the Endvmion. On uearing r'alraerston, about a quarter of a beyond the brewery, the winkers somewhat unaccountably catne off one hoi>e, aud he swerved off the road, end m twinkling of an eye fourteen people were m a big water-hole., with cornets, horns, bombardons, <fee, all mixed m inextricable confusion. The bandmaster reclined '{race fully upon hid back m the midst of the hole, the big drum piled top of him, but, bravely holding his torch up. Another imtinbur, struck out forthe. shore, afti:i tho style of Ca,ptaia Webb m ' the waterfall, while the remaining members, who had got out by this time,«(sti ucl? up a chorus, " Swiua for the shore, bandsman, swim for the shore." However, no bones were broken, not even those which Massa Bones had m his pocket, and having fished oat as many instruments as possible the Bandsmen got the vehicle u P^fc|L the king- bolt m, atid resumed their. „, journey, two, less courageous than the others walking m. This morn* t ing a party of meji were sadly seen | fishing iv a hole and after a little t rouble they fished up, not two eelf,' but two brass instruments.