SERIOUS MINING RIOTS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3068, 2 September 1886, Page 3

SERIOUS MINING RIOTS.

News from Wollongong, New South Wales, reports seiious rioting in that district. A. number of miners, estimated at about 200, visited the Mount Keira mine. There, it seems, the miners had withdrawn from a compact respecting prop cutting and skip wheeling. But they did not attempt intimidation here. Whether this was due to the Mount. Keira miners being sufficiently numerous to repel attack, or to other causes, does not appear. But they proceeded thence to Mount Pleasant, and surrounded a hut occupied by four men who had been engaged since the strike. By intimidation they compelled them t.o come out; they threatened to lynch, to throw them over a bridge, and to drown them. Their violence fortunately ended in driving them to the main road, three miles away ; one incident in the outrage being the escape of one of the men, who fired on his pursuers. The rest of the men were warned with threats not to go back. Returning to Mr La biff's private residence, near the mine, the rioters attempted to blow it up with an explosive; but fortunately they only succeeded in destroying part of a dairy, and damaging a portion of the roof of the residence.