THE MEETINGS IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2395, 15 November 1887, Page 2

THE MEETINGS IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE.

[reuteu’s telegrams.] London, November 11. Jilt William Saunders, Home Ruler, ex-member of Parliament for Hull, lias been arrested for addressing a meeting at Trafalgar Square. Mr Saunders’ arrest raises a test case as to the legality of the recent proclamation issued by the Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police forbidding the bolding of meetings in public squares. November 12. Mr Matthews, Home Secretary, lias assured the residents of Trafalgar Square that the authorities will continue to prohibit meetings of the unemployed in the square on property owned hy the Crown.

THE LATEST.

Received November 11th, 12,40 p.ra. (keuter’s TELEGRAMS.) London, November 13. In express defiance of the proclamation forbidding meetings in Trafalgar Square a number of the Radical Societies of London persisted in the attempt to hold a meeting this morning in that locality. In an encounter with the police the mob destroyed the railings of the sq-mro, but the police eventually cleared and encircled the square, and the attempts of the crowd to force their way back were frustrated. This afternoon a further threatening demonstration was made by the mob, and the authorities were compelled to call out a body of horse and foot guards to reinforce the police. Several arrests have been made, and the crowd is now dispersing.