A SERIOUS AFFRAY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 November 1913, Page 5

A SERIOUS AFFRAY.

SEVERAL PERSONS WOUNDED. CONSTABLES CHARGE A MOB. REVOLVER SHOTS FIRED, WELLINGTON, Last Night. A serious affray took place this evening at Buckle street, by the Drill Hall, and though at present it is difficult to get reliable details, it is pretty certain that four casualties, at least, wore the result. It .seems that a crowd gathered around, watching the Permanent Artillery and special constables quartered at the Garrison Hall. As these came too close, and refused to go away, a. hose was turnei on them. They fell back a bit, and the hose was then turned off. '

AN ARTILLERYMAN SHOT. A sJhot was fired from amongst the .crowd, and Sergt.-Major Thompson, of tho Permanent Artillery, fell: . -V v. mounted; special .constables;: who were subjected* to"> h&a?y stones, and lumps of iron, a-s well as * - f re '?ueut peppering ' of revolver shots. ' j THREE OTHERS SHOT. } In the mslee, two boy£, dne a tele-' graph messenger, were shot, but not I fatally, and another artilleryman I was shot. • | One of these is reported to be dead,' but Colonel Knox, in charge of the force at the barracks, ref Vied . to give any* information. i PACIFYING THE MOB. ! II iis stated that Colonel Hume se- ! cured the recall of the charging con- j stables, and then, taking huK-a- ' dozen artillerymen, talked dowa the ! street to the crowd, and leaving hie 1 men approached and talked with tho men gathered round, and induced ' them to go away. j