CLOSING SCENES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 290, 12 November 1912, Page 4

CLOSING SCENES.

Telegraphic information to-day points to the probable speedy settleijuent of the Reefton miners’ strike. The terms of settlement have .eomt from the minei s. but it is understood that the companies have approved of the provisions. A ballot of the men has yet to be taken to ratify the agreement as proposed, but it seems plain enough now that no further trouble will be looked for. This strike has done a great deal of barm to the town of Reefton and the l district dependent upon the activity i of the mines for daily business. The j losses, however. have not faller. ! upon the shoulders of the business i people alone. The men have also I suffered in a measure not to be i’iightlv forgotten. It will take ReefSpin a long time to recover from its. ic< sth" experience of strike rule and ' f, r the sake of all concerned wt si’icerelv trust there will be no tei petition of the tremble for many I '■i - :?.!- It' At Waihi the blnn

j dering Federation is providing rich I comedy for the public in other towns.. The occurrences recorded yesterday l were exquisitely ludicrous. The ) strikers and their howling female j supporters have been given a plentiI fill dose of their own medicine and I it is calculated to do them a lot of ) good. The epithet “scab” will not be so freely- used in that locality again I for a while and some of the anarchis--1 tie ’principles” of the Federation ; will also have to undergo revision. 1 The wreath of martyrdom has been ; rudely torn from the brows of the I ■ heroes” in Mt. Eden and the ora- | tors who have been wasting hot air I on denunciations of the law and its i interpreters will have to swallow 1 quite a lot of their words. Mr. Parry : and his nobltfe companionship who went to gaol sooner than obey the law must Lave had cold shivers when they heard their noble brother Federationists calling for Inspector Cullen. The patriotic gentlemen who tore up the Union Jack and trampled it into the dust must also have been bard put to it when they were constrained to seek succour from the | forces of law and order which they j had previously so generously- insulted and defied. It was a great spec- ; table ami the Federation has made i itself the laughing stock of New Zea- ; land. It just shows what all Air. I Semple’s lurid promises were worth. ! Ct one .time this gentleman endeav- | mired to convev the impression to I the public that the Federation held | the industrial machinery- of the coun- | trv in the hollow of its hand. But 1 now have the mighty fallen '. The i great twenty-four hours’ demonstrat t ion ended in smoke and now in > their own stronghold the gallant ! “Reds” have been routed and heaped | with ridicule. It will show the leadI <-.rs of this precious organisation that the great bulk of the people have no inclination to listen to twaddle or countenance tyrannical attempts tc interfere with freedom. The best, thing that can now be done is to proride bonds for the “heroes” at Alt. Eden and a ticket for Mr. Semple to go abroad until the people have forgotten his folly .