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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 53, 31 August 1872, Page 2

The Huntingdon farmers are not apparently very wisefolk. They have appealed to force against their labourers, who outnumber them by ten to one. A meeting of labourers was called at Yaxley, and attended by about a thousand men, who assembled on the green, and proceeded to discuss their grievances soberly enough. The farmers, however, resolved to silence them, and to show their scorn of the meeting as a sort of crow's Parliament, kept shaking the wooden bird-clappers with which boys frighten the crows. The men bore this insolence for a little while, but at la«t rushed at the fanners, threshed theru soundly, and drove them into Yaxley, where the shopkeepers turned out to protect their customers. The labourers' wives, it is stated,, were especially roused, and. advised an attack on the homesteads.; but quieter counsels prevailed, and the labourers only resolved to standi, out tor two more shillings than they would previously to the outrage hav« accepted.