TROUBLE AT WELLINGTON.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 620, 19 November 1913, Page 5

TROUBLE AT WELLINGTON.

i SPECIALS CHARGE MOB. MOUNTED SPECIAL'S LEG BROKEN. [RY TKLWJHAPII. —I'IIKSS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, This Day. Between two and three thousand strikers and others npeembleri at the Post Office Square this' inorniji :it S.oil. Some rniM! :iC:>rl(d boo- hooinjT a ?<!U:U! of twcvlr r.-lPUni-:', : rrr] : >)r. The- ' I'himour inciv-.-'ci: :r. i ;:v ninnndui j jiu-n \vi:TO n):-tr;:r; ; ,; ■;,-; c;c;ir tho | Sq;;;!ic. They :uiv,<;iuvd on (ho mob |at a !):.!!' (rot. \vj(ii hiiinir.- ';:;; i if. The i crowd s;»ro;ui, but o ho eiiuod sissemj hied :U (ho coi i;<t of the Pier Hotel. To riisnoi-M' (ho M - ibo o-oooialsi had to chare, o. and ui.;o ; hoir baton:-. One of tbf !).>;■;•;•!- ihippod, throwing it rider. Pi'.i, of P::hiauia, and falling ■on hi iv:. P;-i ooMoimd a brokenleg j and was (.-bon to the hospital. I ftioamvhiio (ho m<f> rcrTtored. More ; mounted? ::rv;\ed, and with rogularß , I'oinplet.'dy cleared the Square and ad- ! jj-iooni. ?tr.vi ; ; of loiter.-.-a. ,\ uiv.v. nameo Charles Johnson, who had :-oi;'.oi a apcial 'e baton, was ar- ; trsiaf None of tin men batoned were fleri- ■ Q\'.\-\\ llUl'i. | Af ! ! o'clock all the city hotels i v, era closed. j Work is proceeding eteadily on the i w harvep.