THE RIOTING IS BELFAST.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2216, 21 September 1886, Page 2

THE RIOTING IS BELFAST.

Hi i f vst, July 31. Rioting was if>uii].'.{ m Belfist toillicit, b>it .ucvii.itf detuls are not yet obtainable. It has I ccii asceit uned that l)'tw-ui.s md U oVock a band followed I>\ a l.uge er.rnd passed up to a aids the distm Led distnets. Thefe was a good deal of rxcit'-ment there owing to several exclusion p u ties having passed th it way p.tvioisly The ie-^.lt was that some st >ne nnuwnii! ens-ud. Many per-ons were inpned, including the Hoi,. Colonel Folk's, RM.. ainl tint c policemen, all of whom wen- biou^it to the Royal Hospital to ha\e their wounds diessed. At the close otthe disturbance se\ eral civilians ucte biought to the same institution . almost ail their wounds were inflicted by stones William Wallace rei eived .i bullet wound m the thigh. A lad nam<d Kno\ has been picked up dead, h.niig b en shot through the breast ••uid tin- i, ght leg Many "shots were tiied. and it i> stited th.it the constabulai> tiled upon tlx- lu < b twice. At 11.30 p in. the dU tin bauee^ had ceased. August 1. There has bee'i no ieal distatbance today, and themilir.uy weie not confined to bai lacks. Kwnthc- police ha\ebeen distnb. ited in putu, thiouuh the distm bed pait-* ot the town, h e\cral ningis. ti ites b nig wit u th. ni at the most dangerous points. Thitc or foui public-hou-es wcu- w icckid ,i\.d looted in the couisf of last night's riotmir. Extra const ibulaiy ha\c aimed in town, and more aie expectul. 1 iv- military, both hoi so and foot, aie oat on duty tonight in the stie ts, as the\ were last mght.°A good many police and ci\ lhaiisaie^aid to luue hem nijiued, but no irustwotthy iiyiiiefe can be ii.imul. Some Sunday scnool exeuisionists wlio returned to Belfast la-t e\enmg caused the thoioughiaus to be crowded with spectator, when the rioting commenced. Among the public-houses attacked was one belonging to a man named Rioidan. Shots were then iiied. The police weie ordered to Hie upon the mobs two or tlnee times. A number of the pcisons injured were treated by medical men in the vicinity of the Old Lodge -road and Slianklull road, and not taken to the hospital. The police were badly stoned. They at first u«ed their batons freely, but in consequence of the \ iolence of the mob they weie obliged to use their nilcs. The distill bailees, which began in the \ iciuity ot the CiulWo- circus and Clifton-street, extended towards the more dangerous and distuibed distncts of Sluukhill-road and Old Lodge.io.nl, and it was there that it was maintained up to an ad\anccd hour. It is theie that this e\emng the excitement pievails and that the authorities aie concentiating their ellorts for the purpose of preserving pi ace. Tue im»istrates and constabulaiy did not anticipate any distuibance List night. One large Sunday School exclusion connected with St Enoch's Chinch left JJ-lu&t without ha\mgany piocess.on. They ptocetdeii to the° i ulway station in small parties, and in the exening, when they returned to Kelfa>t, they bioke up in a similai manner. 1 his was done at the lcijiicst of the Mayor. There weie se\ eral bands in the .sheets dining the cuening, and it is alleged that the inteiteience ot the police with one of these close to Can it k-hill, a very dancjerous locaiitv, was the oiigin of the distuibanee. Stone throw mg was soon afterwards freely indulg.-d in, and with the excited crowds in the thoroughfares the turbulence boon sptead. The lad Knox is the only peison dead.