SERIOUS MILITARY RIOT AT ALDERSHOT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2242, 20 November 1886, Page 3

SERIOUS MILITARY RIOT AT ALDERSHOT.

A military riot, which at one moment threatened to assume the proportions of a mutiny, occurred in the streets of the town at about seven o'clock in the evening of October (sth. At about that hour 150 mci. of the Inniskillen Fusileers, part of a drafr under orders to proceed the following morn ing to join the 2nd battalion of the regiment, at present stationed in South Africa, collected in High-street. Some of then were armed with the legs of iron bed-cot used in barracks, and they soon began tuse these freely. The disturbance soon a.sumed formidable proportions, and tin military police picquets had to be rein forced. The former, underthe command oi Captain Broackes, provcst-marshal, graj. pled with the rioters with the greatest gal lantry, and several of them were severeh wounded in the desperate struggle which ensued. Ultimately the rioters were over powered, and no fewer than 41 arrested and t^ken to the cells. The casaulties sun tamed by the military police included Corporal Stone, head cut open, and Private Hani&on, cuts and bruises. The corporal was taken to the Cambridgt hospital. It is worthy of note that the publicans of the town co-operated with the civil and military authorities by closing their premises as long as the disturbance lasted. The riot, which is understood to have been due to dissatisfaction at beiner sent on foreign service, was the most serious that has ever been witnessed at Aldershot.