THE REBELLION IN CANADA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1337, 7 May 1885, Page 3

THE REBELLION IN CANADA.

The half-breed rebellion in Saskatchewan County, Canada, led by Riel, who was the head of the former outbreak, is making headway, An important fight took place at Crosier on March 29th, between the rebels and mounted police and civilians, forty rebels being killed. Although Kiel tms not, accord* ing to General Middleton, more th n 600 fighting men, they are well armed, detei mined, and mean mischief. News recciyed at Battleford slate tint a tribe (the Crees), had started out on the war path, stimulated by Riel’s emissaries, and fears of a general uprising were well founded, for all the Indians rapidly joined their forces with the halfbreeds. Plundering forces ct Battleford are killing the selectors and burning buildings belonging to the Hudson Bay Company. The Government at Ottawa is rapidly despatching troops to the scene of the trouble. Riel is fighting to prevent the lands of Indians and hulf-broeds being taken from them for settlement by immigrants crossing

into the country. He h\a now over 2000 good men under him, but no field-pieces. Crack military regiments of Ottawa have gone to the scene of hostilities, and Uie 63rd Rifles have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to proceed to the North West. A complete battery of muzz'e-loading ninepounders, with ammunition, was shipped from London in April for Canada, for use in suppressing the rebellion. The Canadian authorities are of opinion that the trouble will not last long, but many valuable lives will be sacrificed before it is suppressed. Among the latest news from the front, it is mentioned that Colonel Irvine has tplegraphed for 1500 men with supplies at once. The i'e ton Sioux Indians have swarmed across the border from the United States and are making serious trouble. Several hundred of the Six Nations Indians have been organised by the Government as scouts. Despatches from Brattleford on the 10th April says that the Indians at Log Lake bad killed ten whites among them two priests, Brattleford was surrounded by about 1000 Indians. The Indians at Saddle Like had raided the Government warehouse and gone to join the rebels. The prospect is now of a general Indian uprising.