As it was, in two or three minutes after the hollow assurances of good-will uttered by those whom he saw bristling at the same time with vengeance about him, an effort was made by a man to drag the unfortunate process-server out of the lines.

He was immediately pulled back by a policeman, but was scarcely restored to his place, When he was struck on the side of the head with a wattle.

The blow caused him to stagger, and would have caused him to fall, but that he was seized and kept upon his legs by the policeman.

He had not time, however, to recover his steadiness, when he was felled to the ground by a blow from a stone, which sent him to the ground a corpse.

A general assault with every description of rude and formidable weapons, now commenced upon the unfortunate constabulary.