BOTTLED BEER.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1894, 31 October 1913, Page 8

BOTTLED BEER.

QUEER DISPATCH TO WHARF. At about 4 p.m. a decided movement on the part of the crowd was observed towards Grey Street. Presently an express was observed making its way towards tho Queen's Wharf gates. The crowd became hostile, and tho driver was to remarks. Suddenlya striker on horseback appeared. Tho rider held his hand in the air and waved a piece of whito paper. He placed himself in front of the vehicle and escorted it through tho dense mass of people. A way was soon cleared and the triumphant march began. Still waving tho paper aloft the mounted picket shouted to tho crowd that- everything was all right, and that ho had authority from the Strike Committee for a free passage to bo given to the express. At tho entrance to tlie wharf he showed the authority to the pickets ,on duty, and the express, which was laden with bottled beer, passed through and went alongside the Union Company's Wahine. It may be stated that, in the opinion of a good many people, tho dispatch of tho beer by whoever was responsible for it was ill-judged. Every bottle is really a baton, and, in the heat of tho afternoon, the temptation to loot the wagon mwst have been strong. _ The whole incident refleote more credit on the pickets than on anyono else.