EUREKA STOCKADE.
THE GOLDEN JUBILEE. By Cable.—-Press Association.—Copyriaht. (Received December 7, 11 aaji.) MELBOURNE, December 7. Labour, at the Trades Hall, celebrated the golden jubilee of the Eureka StockadA [The incident of the Eureka Stockade, during which a of miners engaged a military force and mounted, police, wag, due to the action of the State of Victoria in enforcing payment for"miners' rights' 5 ' too rigorously. : The miners at the Eureka field considered the Government 's action unjustjrawd resolved to defy the troopers sent to en- ; force' the laiw. / They,- therefore, entrenched themselves behind a stockade, under the leadership of. Peter Lalor, and ■< gave battle, during which three, or foul* niefti on eifchpriSide.Twere'killed-antl:;scve-ral injured.-] /
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 260, 7 December 1914, Page 8
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