THE WAIHI TROUBLE.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 1906, 23 October 1912, Page 2

THE WAIHI TROUBLE.

SUSPENSE IRRITATING THE

MINERS

PEE PPESS ASSOCIATION,

Auckland. October 22. The Herald's special reporter at Huiitly telegraphs to the effect that tne suspense is telling on a certain section of the idle miners. Up to the present the men have been 'most orderly. This afternoon a pressman was walking inoffensively along the main road, and pausing* in front of the executive's office to ascertain if any messages were posted up. Suddenly, a miner, said to be an Austrian, stepped forward and said to pressman in an angry tone: "Would you like a dip in the'riverr" "No, thank you," responded the pressman, firmly. "Then," persisted the striker, I will — well throw you in." With that he made for 'the pressman with clenched hands, but was prevented from reaching the object of his wrath by the union secretary and others, while the pressman slowly walked away. Early in the afternoon the arbitration advocate was interfered with, one of the strikers catching him by the coat and others endeavouring to jostle him. On this occasion the secretary also interfered. A movement in favour of a . new union is growing anace.