AN UNRULY MOB AT WAIHI.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 60, 4 November 1912, Page 6

AN UNRULY MOB AT WAIHI.

CHASED BY MOUNTED POLICE. (Per Press Association.) Waihi, November 3. A remarkable scene occurred in the main street on Saturday night, as the outcome of a big rally by unemployed and their women folk at an early hour of the evening. I!l-smel]iug eggs were projected indiscriminately among the crowd in different streets, and the appearance of a contractor who had resumed work that day was tho signal for a rally. A nfob of women rushed towards him howling and hurling all kinds of epithets. Pandemonium ensued. The contractor was followed by a crowd, but soon the police took a hand in the game. Mounted constables swept up the streets scattering the crowd right and left. On reaching a corner at the chief point of interest,.a constable rode on to the pavement, right into tho thickest of the howling and excited crowd, and down footpath, scattering tho crowd in all directions. Many rushed through and over a timber yard fence, amongst them, it is stated, being Semple, who is said to have leaped the fence.

The scene opposite the Miners’ Hall as a mounted constable approached almost beggared description. Women fought their way into a narrow entrance) of the hall, many of the women being thrust aside by men in their eagerness to get inside. A constable then repeated his performance on the other side of the

street, and within ton minutes of bis first appearance the mob was completely dispersed and quiet restored. Strangely enough, no one was injured.