A REIGN OF TERROR.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 41, 4 September 1900, Page 1

A REIGN OF TERROR.

Describing the panic sti.eken condition oi tne settlers in the district; terrorised by the murderous* biacks, the Sydney Daily IVegraph reports :—": — " Wollar at oruinary times is one of tbe deadest pjacej in tiio colony ; now it is the theatre of frenzied excitement, a city oi refuge, a haven of the panic stricken. Families from np ami wOwn oho Woiiar creek have flocked into town, and evory available place is crammed ■with humanity; it will gue you some idea or the terror wxaich the Governors hava in&Divled iiifio the hoaris or Lhebt) peopie \vLcsa I tell you that one woman va,& vainly ofioring pounds toy someors to go up to hei. piuuJ and milk the cowd. So suddenly had she jef& tL.iL tho calves were" not turned out with their mothers, but no one wo ald accept the job. Of course, the Siecpiog accomodabion io fciied to the tufcermosfc, as 1 found to my cost aitjr a lifty-mile ride thiou^h the sjruo, when I leuraed Lhao there wu.6 nothing for i*» but t» camp on the floor before a good hie. it was iaidy late when we aruved, and as soon as nighs fell I got a splendid illustration of tbe condition of affairs. Going oaa on souio mission or other,- I «tound on returning that the door was bolted and barred. I knocked and a voice answered, " Who's there ?" I made some innocuous and reassuring" reply, bub it was no good; They would not admit. Happily for me, one of the lownspeop^ oariio along, andon my explaining that I was perfectly harmless ho undertook to see me in. When he was challenged the answer he gave was " J3obs " Immediately the door ilow .open to us. Then I learnt that that was ths padsword throughout the town, an.« Umo after time I heard it. Later" ou in the night I also learn fc thac there was a cordon of policy stationed round the town, and thu& thfc pickets were relieved in 'reguiut' military fashjon. The view- huia by the people in Wollar is that tiui Governors will return there from time io time, and that as a mattes" of fact, they 'each day sicup/atnoij^ ■ the clifs, watching tho searcH parties go out." " - ,