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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2924, 11 April 1891, Page 2

It is worth noting that tho disturbances in Queensland have become so formidable that Sir Thomas Mclhvraitli has found it nocessary to return home. The Unionists have been allowed to go to such lengths of intimidation and violence that it will bo much more difficult to chock them now than it would have been to nip this incipient insurrection in the bud, Democratic government is on its trial in Queensland as it never has been yet in any of the Australian colonies. Theio is no reason, however, to doubt that the patriotism and law-abiding instincts of the people will be found equal to the strain that is being put upon them. It is, however, gratifying to noto that at the various labour meetings held in the sister colonios, it was evident that the insurrectionary language of the more violent speakers met with little or no approval i'roai the moro sensible. It was, however, equally evident that the latter had no power to control the malevolent forces which they have evoked.