TUMULTOUS AND RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS AT THE WEXFORD ELECTION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3752, 25 July 1883, Page 3

TUMULTOUS AND RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS AT THE WEXFORD ELECTION.

DEATH FROM CHOLERA IN

ALEXANDRIA.

ANOTHER MURDER LEAGUE IN

IRELAND

THE COLONIES UNITED IN REFER-

ENCE TO ANNEXATION,

THE WINNER OF THE QUEEN'S PRIZE. LONDON. July 18. At the Wexford election many of The O'Connor Don's supporters were insulted by supporters of his opponent, aud consequently abstained from voting. StonethroAving was general, several of the police being Avounded thereby, The O'Connor Don himself being struck. The police dispersed the throwers Avith fixed bayonets, and a desperate riot ensued, the mob being resolute. Thirty of the rioters Avere

ba.yonettcd, tho onlookers meanwhile pouring showers of stones on the constables, Abounding many. Messrs Healy and Sexton

having promised to protect the town and The O'Connor Don, the police withdreAv to

their barracks. Mr William Redmond, Avho was the opponent of The O'Connor Don for tho seat of Wexford, was returned by a majority of 181.

A death from cholera has occurred at Alexandria.

Tho evidence given at flic trial of the murderers of Mrs Smyth, at Wcst-mcath, discloses that an attempt was made to murder five landlords. Fifteen of the prisoners have been remanded. Mr Murray Smith, Agent-General for Victoria, in a letter to Tho Times, states

that the colonies have expressed a deliberate, united opinion regarding Now Guinea, and

that they are Avilling to bear the cost of the annexation.

At the Wimbledon meeting Sergeant M'Kay, of the Ist Battalion of the Argylc

and Sunderland Highlanders, Avas the winner of the Queen's Prize, with a score of 70 points.

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