ASIATICS IN ARMS.
AFGHAN CAMEL-OWNERS', STRIKE INWEST AIjgTRALiX A ROAD CLOSED—POLICE ;SENT. (BY'tELEQBAM—PEES3iUS3OCIAiiOK-^iji*YniGilT;) ''Pei'tfi,' September 12 ( ', There is a sGrioijg strike of. camel-owners on the route from' Port' Hodland : toMarble' Bar, chief town of the Pilbarra goldfields. Forty armed Afghans., Jiaj r s„,,taken,. pes- - session of the tfoWlW teSmV i with foodstuffs or other materials to proceed inland. ... All available police have Jbeen sent to the scone. ..j. ~, A- voyage of 93G nautical miles froiii Fremantle brings the .Port Hedland, the only natural port in'tho North West for the Pilbarra goldfields, and also the" port for a large and well-known ipdstoral''district,-. thePiorth West, which finds' at Port- 1 Hedland special facilities for shipping stock. Marble Jiar, the chief town of the Pilbarra goldfields is 116 miles south-east from- Port Hedland. It is a fairly thirsty toute. ' According to one authority, wells are,inet.-vith;at short' intervals on tho road to the goldfields, and' sometimes also there is surface water in the creeks' Miners' wages at Marble Bar aro reported to be 80s. a week, labourers' 70s. a week and mechanics 17s. a day; the cosfc-of living beine proportionately high. B
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 301, 14 September 1908, Page 7
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188ASIATICS IN ARMS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 301, 14 September 1908, Page 7
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