CHURCH UNION RIOT.
THE POLICE ; STONED.
THE MILITARY SUMMONED. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.
(Received January i, 9.32 a.m.) London, December 31. The islanders ;in Lewis, in : the Hebrides, refusing to recognise the Union of the Free United Churches of Scotland, besieged the police for several hours in a church at Ness, stoning and finally compelling- them to leave the island. The military, have been summoned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11852, 2 January 1902, Page 5
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