WARLIKE WOMAN.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1893, 30 October 1913, Page 8

WARLIKE WOMAN.

AND AN UNINVITED ORATOR. A certain Mr. M'Namara, who lias been talking with considerable regularity in Post Office Square for tho last few days, met with chilling reception when iie mounted the cart to speak yesterday afternoon nnd the subsequent proceedings afforded a great deal of amusement to those who were not so seriously concerned with the conduct of the speech-making as 60111© of the strikers seemed to bo. Mr. M'Namara, who has lost his voice as the result of oratory, conimcnced huskily, and could hardly bo heard a yard away. He had goi 110 further than "Fellow-workers, ladies and gentlemen ' 'when someone in the crowd loudly demanded if he had any authority to "tako the platform" in the absence of tho chairman (Mr. Bailey). "Who are you, anyway?" demanded a burly Irish striker. « "My name is M'Namarai" said the orator, "and I am a member of the Seamen's Union." There were loud cries of "Get down I" while a few timidly pleaded that the man be given a chance to have his say.. Tho Irishman advanced to remove Mr. M'Namara by force, but he was restrained by a little old woman, who forthwith proceeded to tako the conduct of tho matter into her own hands. She advanced to the driver of the express avid said: "Kick him off your cart." i "I never asked him to get on my cart," said the driver, "And remember that this cart is my own property, so keep your hands off it." "I'll smack you 011 the face," said tho old Amazon, with a good deal of heat. She was beginning to warm to tlie work. "I'll tako him down myself," she shouted. "Give the man a chance," said a nonstriker. "Every man has a right to bo heard." "If he is on the right side," replied tho old woman. "We don't want to hear the other side." Her zeal was clearly greater than her powers of logical reasoning. Meanwhile, Mr. M'Namara was attempting to whisper to the crowd, but he began to look anxious when an old woman now furiously enraged, addressed him as "you ." : Sho lifted' a parcel in her hand and threatened to throw it at him, but desisted with tho remark that she had too much respect for its contents.to throw it at "a ." Another worker then mounted tho cart and pleaded with the crowd to pay no attention to what Mr. M'Namara told them, as ho was not a responsible person. Eventually tho gentleman of tho lnisky voice thought that his surroundings wore becoming somewhat tro* pical, and suddenly disappeared over a wlieei on tho other side of the cart fixJm.that on which his doughty, if fraillooking, opponent was standing. After threatening to pull the noses of several spectators who had laughed at her, the old woman disappeared, and 0110 of tho merriest incidents of tlio day closed.