The Rebellion in Canada.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1, 8 May 1885, Page 3

The Rebellion m Canada.

[Per Mail Steamer.] The half-breed rebellion m Saskiil Cliewan country, Canada, led by Kiel, head of the former outbreak, is making headway. At an important fight at CrozieY, on Maich '29th, between the rebels and the mounted police and civilians, forty rebels were killed. Although Bid has not, according to General Middleton, more than 500 real lighting men, they are all well armed, determined, and mean mischief. .News has* 1 " been received at Battleford that an Indian tribe, the Ciess, had started out on the warpath, stimulated by Kiel's emissaries, and fears of a general uprising were well founded, f<»r all the Indians rapidly joined the forces with the half-breeds, plundering the forces at Battleford, killing instructors, and binning the buildings* belonging to Hudson's Bay Company and the Groverunieut of Ottowa. The Government is rapidly despatching troops to the scene of the trouble. Kiel is fighting to prevent the binds of the Indians and half-breeds being taken from them for settlement by immigrants cro*sinj( into the country. He has now over 2000 good men under hiu: but no field pieces. The crack militia regiments of Ottawa have gone to the scene of hostilities, and the 63rd Rifles of Halifax have been ordered to hold themselves m readiness to proceed to the northwest.. A complete battery of muzzle-loadinpc 9-ponnders was shipped from London on April 2nd for I Canada, to be used m suppressing the rebellion. The Canadian authorities are of opinion that the trouble will not last long, but many valuable lives •wrillba sacrificed I Mil ore it is suppressed. | Among the latest items of news from the fiont it is mentioned th«t Colonel Irvine has telegraphed for 1 500 men with supplies, to be forwarded at once. The ,Texton Sioux Indians have j swarmed across the border from the i United Stales, and were making , serious trouble. Several hundred of the six nations of Indians have been organised bytheGovernnienta>scouts. Despatches from Battleford, on 10th April, say that the Indians at Log Lake had killed 10 whites, among them two priests. Battleford was surrounded by about 1000 Indians, The Indians at Saddle Lake had raided the Government warehouse, j and gone to join the rebels The prospect is now of a general Indian uprising.