LAWLESSNESS IN NEWFOUNDLAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 7004, 28 July 1884, Page 3

LAWLESSNESS IN NEWFOUNDLAND.

dispatch from St. John's on Jane 20 says that two Orange outrages are reported from northward and Twillingate. Sixteen loaded guns were fired in the house of Captain Grey and the windows smashed with huge stone's. lhe Greys are one of the only three Catholic families in Twillingate. At Queen's Pond Harbour four Southern vessels took refuse from the south-west gale and a floating field of ice on the preceding Tuesday. The Orangemen attacked the crews on shore, maimed them badly and pursued them to their vessels with large ballast stones, smashing the cabin dco-s skylights, cabin-stoves, and furniture, breakiug bulkheads, and forcing the vessels to push into the storm and ice. One outrage was perpetrated oniatnrday, June 27, by the ere w of the barque Lady Elibank. They broke into the Catholic church of St. Mary's in St. Mary's Bay, and demolished the furniture and appointments of v t Ean!i tuary> destroyed the tabernacle, abstracted. the chalice, and other Bacred vessels, smashed tbe candelabra, and strewed the debris about the streets, and in various ways desecrated the church. Five men were arrested. As soon as knowledge of the desecration of the church spread amongst the Catholic population, not less than 500 boats were manned for the purpose of firing and scuttling the vessel; but the influence of the parish priest and the supplying merchants prevented revenge.