OUTRAGES BY SHEARERS.

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 50, 28 August 1894, Page 2

OUTRAGES BY SHEARERS.

A RIVER STEAMER BOARDED AND SUNK. BLOODSHED BETWEEN UNIONISTS AND POLICE. I UNITED PBSSS ASSOCIATION. I Sydney, 27th August. Shearing tronbles have assumed a serious aspect along the Darling River. The Bteamer Rodney, conveying a number of free labourers, was boarded by a band of masked men, who fired the vessel, whioh eventually Bank. There were some 50 persons on board, but no lives were lost. The Government is in reooipt of intelligence of an affray at Grasmoro Station, where about 100 men from the Unionist camp marched to the free labourers' huts and informed Sergeant M'Donagh, who was protecting them with a force of police, that they were armed and wanted the free labourers, and, further, that they meant to have them at any cost. The Unionists then oharged the huts and smashed in the doora. M'Donagh was assaulted. Several shots were fired from the huts during the miUe, and two Unionists named M'Lean and Murphy were badly wounded, the former being in a critical condition. The Unionists retreated, carrying the wounded men with them, but "were pursued by the police. The wounded men M'Lean and Murphy, and six others, were taken prisoners. The whole of the Darling district is in a disturbed condition. About 650 men are oampod at Wilcannia, to which place reinforcements of police have been Bent. A detachment of police has been sent to Broken Hill, in anticipation of tronble in the big sheds there.