SERIOUS RIOTING.
Sydnuy, September 19. A serious riot took place at the new Lambton Mine, Newcastle, yesterday. A number of labourers, who were engaged to put out coal, were rushed by a mob of some thousand miners, armed with sticks. The police attempted to protect the men. but were powerless against the numbers, and violence was only prevented by the surrender of the men, who undertook to refrain from doing any more work. A force of Permanent Artillery, under Colonel Spalding, with a Nordenfelt gun, was despatched to the rescue from Sydney, but the men had dispersed before its arrival.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2527, 20 September 1888, Page 2
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