OUTRAGES BY SHEARERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4811, 29 August 1894, Page 2

OUTRAGES BY SHEARERS.

g ■ ~ >r- v ••v-iti? Bloodshed Between Unionists # and Police, T %

Sydney, August 27 y Shearing troubles havo assumed serious aspect along tho Dailmg River. Tho Bteamer Rodney, convej mg a number of : . free labourers,; was boarded by a band of masked men, who fired the vessel,which eventually sank. There were some 50 pe isons , ( s on board, but no The antelligonco wheTO the Unionist camp marchedwthe j free labourers' huts and informed -'-S Sergt. MoDoungh, who was protecting them .with a forco of police, that 1 they were armed and wauted tho free labourers, and, further, that , they meant to have them at any cost, The Unionists then' ohaiged „ the huts and smashed in the doorsMcDonagh was assaulted. - Several shots wero fired, and two, " Unionists named McLean and Muipliy were badly wounded, the foimer being in a critical condition. •$ The Unionists retreated, canying tho wounded men with them, but were pursued by the police. The two wounded men, and six othois, wero taken.prisoners. .m The whole of the Darling district is in a disturbed condition.,. ._f 'J About 650 men are camped Wilcannia, to which place reinforco- « ments have been sent,

A detachment of police has been sent to Broken Hill, in anticipation ■■■£ of trouble in the big sheds there. «■" Sydney, August 28. When three milesfrom Wilcannio, '& 500 Unionists intercepted.the polico ■' conveying the wounded and prisoners from the Grasmero Station, and threatened bloodshed unless they " '' J were given up. The polico drew their - which cowed the mob, and the party ' readied the gaol safely. Tho Manuka woolshed has been\ burned down.

After seizing the steamor Rodney, tho Unionists turned the captain, crow, and free labourers adrift in a barge,