The Queensland Agitators.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 26 November 1891, Page 2

The Queensland Agitators.

The Post's correspondent wires : — The Brisbane Telegraph publishes a fac shiiile .of a letter recently seffc from Hughenden to a certain statii&n owner, signed by the Executive of the Queensland Shearers and Labourers' Hevenge ' rigade, threatening to leave the station and woolsheds in ruin unless the manager dismissed all his free labourers before the Ist of January next. In the Legislative Assembly Mr Murphy stated that information had been received that Fanning, the labour organiser, recently released from gaol, was at work again stirring up 8! rife in the woolsheda. Mr Tozar cvQnouneed thai the ftovenuwmt had

been oblige^ to despatch a number of police o^^fest, assistance being delnanded i)y property owners in all quarters, and at least 50 additional police had been sent. 'I he labour delegates were busy in the west. He received telegrams stating that runs in the Advale district had been fired by incendiaries, and the tracts of Farming's horses were easily traced. No doubt Fanning fired the grasses, but there was not sufficient evidence to convict him. Mr Tozar road another telegram stating that Fanning had been to Mount Morris, where 28 nhearers had struck, and summonses had been issued for breach of agreement. Inspector A hern had bepn sent up, and his report showed the necessity for prompt action. The Government would do all in their power to protect life and property.