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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2322, 28 May 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

M.P.rial Institute.—The House of Commons. Sojtrc miners on strike in Lanarkshire, wanting something tn do to pass the time held a muss nvetiug in Hamilton. Some of them on their way homo through tho village of Stouefield, eight miles from Glasgow broke open a number of shops and helped themselves. The chief etore in the place was closed against them, but they got in, and the inhabitants of the village thought they might as well share in the pot-luck Unit was going. Provisions of all kinds were carried away, as well as barrels of whisky and brandy, and a quantity of wine in bottles. The liquors:, wore dealt round in pails, jelly jars, and indeed in any avail ible vessel, to men, women and children ; while the goods were handed nut and carried away in loads. Next morning the orgie was resuraed and a barrel of brandy and a ladle formed the centre of attraction. A detachment of constables appeared, capsized the liquor, and then began to lay the wreckers by the heels, and soon had seventy of them handcuffed. But the villagers had stowed away six months store of small goods and spirits before the policemen arrived,