WAIHI DAY BY DAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 71, 16 November 1912, Page 6

WAIHI DAY BY DAY.

TELEGRAM CAUSES PANIC. ALLEGED FEDERATION EMANATION. (Per Press Association.) Waihi, November 16. A sensation has been caused by the circulation of a telegram said to have come from the Federation of Labom, which strongly advises the wives and children of Fedcrationists who have not loft town to leave the place a °J 1C ’ as the Arbitrationiftts had decided to turn them out of their homes. Ihe telegram has been taken to the houses of Fedcrationists by one of the 1 edc <• tion’s women on a. bicycle, am s man to the wives of men who have let.• As a result, scores of panic-stncke women left yesterday and this moin- • , cr The statement made by t deration- is denied by Arbrtratmnists who have not m any i'O fered with the wive, or cWdrerr o strikers. They emphatrcally stnt they have no intention of doing so, o the contrary, they have offered to a-,. them in every way m then 1> • It is the, general opinion n Vt aim that the wire has been gonb to me . a panic amongst the wives of Xc.c,a tioaists, causing them to dee theiow’n, thus giving the speakers a tho demonstration throughout t, ■ Dominion on Sunday a box llammatory utterances. . , Among the wild rumour, c.reuk d hy the Federationists aie ones effect that the strikers’ grocery store was entered hy an £2OO worth of groceries stolen; another is that the man Evans who was batoned by Constable Wade, at or s b hX the latter, had been mangled by the crowd and bruised al ovo . As a- matter of fact, there were no bruises at all beyond discoloration of the left eye and slight swelling on the right side of the nose. Iherc were no other visible marks.