TIMARU.

Thames Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 3439, 2 January 1880, Page 2

TIMARU.

LastnigHt. Letters Found on the Ringleaders. ; &

The Caj^olics Pass Resolutions. OlNitoatt the Organiser of .the r/*!f&/ 1 . Ribt. ' When the rioters were brought'before the Bench the following letter was read, which was sent by O'Driscoll:—" Xgnaru, December 24.~McMoyniha&-DeipSir, —I am informed .on the very best authority the Orajvemen are going to march on St. Steppn's Day in Timaru, so if you, with sbtne; bf your friends, come and help to obstruct the ruffians, we Tinoaru people woula be'greatly obliged, as there need be no-fighting, only to stop .their progress, aljßfapect they are'only preparing for ChMHjfy. lam sending an everywhere. I hear^they are ' goiug to march under the pfg^otion of th» Foresters and Oddfellows. w'Cpmmi9- ---' sioner HTarney was/telling me to this day, ho you will seelihat they will tnairch if *they are not stopgfed.—F. O'Dbiscoll." The more sensible Mction of the Roman Catholics CRlleajpt - meeting at which Father Chataigney, occupied the chair. Several speakers' deprecated the action of the rioteraJUind considered that Catholics thrdughom' the colony should disavow all couneotijn with the party who interfered with tbJiOrange procession; The following resolutions were passed :— Ist. That: all (3||lolics deprecate and disavow any interftrence direct or indirect with any wange demonstration that may take plaflf ou New Year's" Day, or at any other Jime ; L apd that they plcjijto^themselveßJ.to nk all their inilulnce with their friends or acquaiutarSßeii 1 not'to oppose in aay way4.deinbnstratig^|', of Orangemen tLat maraake pluqe ofi; New Year's Day,,or at aijKother time. % ■tad. That pripfed copies of the resoltt£ tion passed at thii meeting with extracts, from Bishops Uedwood'i and Moran's addresses of last Sunday, be scattered broadcast at onc#, and placed in the hands of all Catholics.'