WAIH! SUFFRAGETTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 268, 8 November 1912, Page 4

WAIH! SUFFRAGETTES.

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DISPERSED POLICE.

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Withstanding " Sf^^J* ' U.e south end of the town, a | tention of giving him tlivS,S? c*e* I police, under SergeanU Bird I J nann. however, arrived on the * I ordered the misguided ' f email £ f i 7' Tl f they fl a tl.v r 1 and an order was immediately » ivpt , .' £ the mounted polices to disperse th i° P Consuls broke the latter^*£ our lots, and the mounted C h ' bore down and drove.the 'I I n-rlii. out of the street, 'dispersiiw *fc V individually. The leader. Ti *l *? " was rather defiant, but cvartna]], ; . take retupe m an outhouse -froi ft," sistent mounted man.. H* rout Z I complete, but no one was hurt ' f: i Commissioner Cullen arriVed". In- tin, I eveninu-'sexpress. . .. ' f' Thi* afternoon a iairlr I of men, together- with, a- small WKaiV. f of women, assembled in the jiaia I at the foot of the Waihi ComiaiirtS ?• and "booed/; Scabbed,-' I I with all their former fervour aniCri™- I as tlip workers came down the^L "° ' I The inerpa?pd number of 'worsts', was 1 noticeable this afternoon.-'.,"Ever, I brake (and some of them, carry' 40 per i sons) was crammed fuIL " fhtsi jjerk* J prs billeted at the Sterling Hotel marcied ■ down in two lots. Small knots: 0 S women ajid girls, wared handkerchiefs ami cheered the men ac they-passei -Hj I policp took more names of three Bs iii» ' offensive language, and it is understood that another batch of summonses mil be issued on Saturday for the conrt on Wednesday. '

ft is reported that "Biff , Eudd v the well-known Australian boxer,"wflT'"tif a visitor here in a few weeks' time." Bill is a SBn of Michael B. Radd, who resfe here with his family, and wlio isalso*e!l known as one of the principal strike breakers. Rudd is president oHhe nw union, and was .recently elected workmen's inspector at the Waihi mine. .' It is Tir.derstood liiafc a meeting of the executive of the Mine Owners' Association was held here to-day in the Reefton trouble. The proceedings were private.