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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 41, 16 July 1885, Page 4

The Government cigar manufactory at Madrid, was, on Match 11, the scene of an extraordinary riot, m which two thousand infuriated women and girls, after wrecking the furniture, breaking the windows' and destroying the machinery, barricaded themselves inside. They successfullyrepelled Hie police, and assaulted the. Governor of Madrid, who made a hasty retreat, and ssout Tor the military and the Civil Guard,-). On their arrival a large crowd of roughs and :niale, r rela.tive>; of the. woman rioters ass'umpd so' threatening/ an attitude that the police charged and dispersed them. In the great confusion that ensued -ninny of ihe lioters were hurt; and one officer and eight police were injured by missiles hurled by the women inside the factory. After a siege which lasted for uiue hours, the women began to be tired of the affray and parleyed wilh the authorities. The result was that thej r were allowed to leave one by one, looking greatly excited The cause of the riot was the intoduction of machinery into the factory.