A REIGN OF LAWLESSNESS.
News received from the Northern territory of Australia states that a reign of lawlessness exists at McArthur. The white population numbers 150, and there Is a considerable popnlation scattered over the surrounding stations. Drunkenness and rowdyism are rampant. There la a perfect epidemic of lawlessness and crime. 'I he outrages which have been perpetrated beggared description. All the Queensland < utlaws flock there, and horse stealing, forgery, and crimes of violence are common, and debts repudiated The place is da ly growing worse. Drunken men are organising with rifles and revolvers. A perfect reign of terror exists, and respectable people submit being in fear of their lives. A gang of rowdies s'ruck np two stores. At one of them, Cameron’s, the proprietor resisted with firearms, and the rowdies withdrew, after firing their rifles into the store. The respectable residents are talking of establishing lynch law. It is impossible to hold a public meeting on the subject as the toughs and blackguards form a majority, and overrule the rest. Mr Gorman, part owner and manager of Calvert’s Downs Station, has arrived at Palmerston, seeking assistance. He says that one notorious scoundrel is butchering hia cattle, and supplying the public with them. He dare not leave hia station to go to the store for the police, as he would probably find every horse stolen. Betides his ca'tle on the ron stolen, some of his horses have already been taken. He has no control over his own men, owing to the number of grog shanties.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1312, 11 August 1886, Page 2
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255A REIGN OF LAWLESSNESS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1312, 11 August 1886, Page 2
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