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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7890, 4 August 1905, Page 2

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TAYLuK pit'iETiii HOWLED DOWM PIHDEaOSIUB REIGSS SUPREM (Per Press AK.sooiat.ion.) DUNUDIN, Aug, 3. ! Tiii: mating culled to-night by Mrssi's i'vdi'or;!, Lainai»on, Taylor and fisher, iij.ii.K.'-s, was the- rowdiest ever -held in Duivcilin. Hy seven o'clock people were finding their way to ine Garrison iiali, which soon became ennvded, and the doors had jto be shut. Oii'liundieds outside. Just, ,011 eight, o'clock the large folding | doors were forced open, though the I hull was so lull that not many more 1 could gel in, but. with the-doors open itnose outside could get an i-dea oi I what was going on insi ic. I Councillor 111 insley look the chair, .and it became evident early thai there was a section of the audience who had delei mined > the speakers should not he heard. Many of these were youths.

Mr Laurenson was the first -to attempt to speak, hut was not allow-ir' to lie heard. -

Mr Hediord followed, bul he got. even a worse reception. lie had to keep the meeting going until the ai:rival oi the North Kxpress, wii-h the two other members, and he did this [with the utmost sangfroid. He rcicited bits of Shakespeare and '■' TJi-e Bridge of Sighs.' 1 About 9.15 p.m., Messrs Taylor and Fisher arrived, and a tremendous hubbub followed.

Mr Taylor was partially heard, unLil lit- began to refer 10 the Sneddon, voucher, a tier which bis remarks were drowned by shouting, singing oi | choruses and other hideous noises. Mr Fisher fared no heller, and a little before eleven- o'clock the most disgraceiul meeting ever held in Dunediu was adjourned till to-morrow evening, when a charge will W> made, the surplus to go lo the hospital funds.