THE POPULACE MADDENED.
Brisbane, /April' l7., The insurance companies, in face of the- . recent events, are refusing to accept riskson pastoral properties in Queensland. " A band of Unionists rushed the Coreena station and induced a number of free labourers to leave. Matters became soserious that the Biot Act was -read: 'and' the military charged the mob with fixed bayonets. Several arrests were made. The shearers have established a reign of terror in the Barcaldine district. The Unionists are firing woolsheds, waggons,, huts, and grass, and are capturing free shearers in all directions. The peopleare maddened and threaten to take tha law in their own hands.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 127, 18 April 1891, Page 2
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105THE POPULACE MADDENED. Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 127, 18 April 1891, Page 2
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