Shearers' Strike a

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 115, 21 March 1891, Page 2

Shearers' Strike a

Q- -••.;;' (PiCR PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Brisbane, March 20. Matters in the shearing district; are disquieting. An attempt was made to* wreck a special train by placing logs across the rails. The telegraph wires were also cut. Government have ordered the leaders of any party offering intimidation to be arrested. All shearers have been ordered to lay down tools on March 23rdThe latest news from the disturbed districts states that a body of some 80 Unionists visited Lome Station, near Blackball, and while the manager of the station was interviewing in the woolshed, the building was set on fire, and the flames obtaining a good mastery, it was soon demolished. All the grass between Lome and Terrick stations have been tired, and the Unionists have lit several grass fires in the vicinity of Barcaldine, Unionists to the number of 1200 are drilling every day at Barcaldine. The Rockhampton Infantry have been called out on active service, and will leave at once for the scene of the trouble. Sydney, March 20 Word was received in town this afternoon that three hundred Unionists had taken possession of Capella, a small township near Cleremont. They compelled the publicans to supply them with free drinks, after which they proceeded to destroy the telegraph line to Retro station, and wound up by setting fire to a quantity of goods belonging to the Railway Department,