HOODLUMS AT WORK.
AT ASHBURTON NO-LICENSE MEETING. . A HORSE DISAPPEARS. (Per Prose Association.) Ashburton, November 17. The police are investigating some outrages at Rangitata. The Rev. G. H. Mann, of Geraldine, and the Revs. T. Woolloxall and F. W; Greenwood, of Ashburton, went to a* school there to deliver a no-hccnso address. Just before 8 p.m. heavy x*ain set in. Some 25 men had assembled and the meeting went on, some staying outside. Immediately the address oegan, disorder arose and finally the meeting had to be closed. A horse had disappeared, a trap had been tampered with and fouled, and Mr Mann’s name cut out into the front board in largo letters. A number of boulders were thrown, but missed the mark fortunately. Ihe clergymen had to make their way across paddocks to a local J.P.’s residence and got wet through. r l he horse was found on Thursday on the road.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 81, 18 November 1911, Page 5
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152HOODLUMS AT WORK. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 81, 18 November 1911, Page 5
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