Anti-Orange Rioting in Newfoundland.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 40, 8 March 1884, Page 4

Anti-Orange Rioting in Newfoundland.

St. John's (N. F.), January 3. — Late dcs patches from Harbour Grace contain several alarming accounts of the maddened state of public feeling all around Conception Bay. It is reported at Bay Roberts that, a number of armed men from up the bay had formed in squads and were about to proceed to Harbour Grace to liberate their Roman Catholic friends confined in the Harbour Grace Gaol. Thereupon over 100 Orangemen, all armed, met on the vantage ground at the river head, near Bay Roberts, with a dogged determination to resist any such attempt. They were re-enforced by contingents from Bareneeds, Spaniard Bay and PortMalgrave. The excitement was indescribable. They marched to and fro all nicjht, but the enemy had sent out reconnoitering parties, who exaggerated the Orangemen's strength, and they remained at homo. From Holyrood and Killigrews intelligence is received of a new outburst of the Orange-Catholic fever at those places. The Orangemen at Killigrews discovered, through spies, that the Catholics at Holy- j rood were aiming and preparing to make a I descent on them for the purpose of deotroying Hie Orange Hall. They made preparations to receive the enemy, collected all possible machineiy for fortifications, and secured all the available firearms. They next sent special messengers down to Topsail and Bellevue sounding the note of warning, and armed Orangemen are hastening in the direction of Killigrews to assist their brethren. It is difficult to anticipate the future development of this new distnrbance. Harbour Grace (N. F.), January 3.— John Bray and Richard Bradbury, who were wounded in the recent encounter between Orangemen and Catholics, have died. Both were Orange sympathisers. Bradbury was wounded by the bursting of his own rifle. Twenty-one persons are under arrest for participating in the riot. The depositions of witnesses were taken to-day. The Catholic witnesses swore that the first shot, which killed Callahan, was fired by Head Constable Doyle, who had been temporarily suspended from duty. Harbour Grace, January 4. — Another victim of the St. Stephen's Day riot— an Orangeman— died to-day. He was a septuagenarian. His skull was smashed with blows from sticks. Two others are not expected co live, and over thirty are wounded. The Harbour Grace "Standard" says there is a general feeling among all parties to let the law take its course, and not repeat the sad occurrences of St. Stephen's Day. The funeral of Jeans was attended by over 1,000 Orangemen in full regalia. There was no disturbance.

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