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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1737, 23 September 1885, Page 3

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A DEMAND FOR EMIGRATION. A MORMON ROW. ATTACK ON GENERAL. BOOTH. THE PALL MALL GAZETTE REVELATIONS. Several thousand unemployed working men assembled at Hackney on the 27th, and adopted a resolution demanding that Government assist them to emigrate. Mr John Ruekin is slowly dying from cerebral disease, accompanied by insomnia. On the evening of the 26th August an infuriated mob invaded a hall at the East End of London, where several Mormon missionaries were preaching, and made a complete wreck. The elders fled for their lives, but several were captured and terribly mal-treated. The cause of the attack was stories set afloat , that these missionaries had been systematically kidnapping young women and shipping them to Utah to be “ sealed ” to rich Mormons. A hostile crowd assembled at the Hull Depot, on the 25th August, to meet General Booth, of the Salvation Army. He was hooted and several attempts were made to reach his carriage. The police had great difficulty in preventing the mob from injuring him. He was struck several times with missiles. A New York Tribune’s London cablegram of 17th August says:—The passage of the Criminal Law Amendment Act remains the last pretext for continued publication of the filthy manner by which the Pall Mall Gazette has earned infamous notoriety, by publication of this sort of literature continues, and agitation continues. The Archbishop of Canterbury has published a disavowal of his alleged approval of the so-called revelations of the Gazette. The Gazette’s “ revelations J have been dramatised at Vienna. The play is mflve acts, called “ Protect our Daughters.'’ On the22ud August a tremendous procession (called by the Press" a morality parade ”) was made to Hyde Park, the number taking part being estimated as high as 150,000. The affair was under the auspices of the temperance societies, Good Templars, Band of Hope Lodges, Salvation Army, various trade and labour societies, aud Young Men's Christian Associatisn. One of the waggons i i the procession carried about 24 little girls dressed in white, holding aloft banners bearing the inscription, " Shall our Innocents be slain.’’ One result of Lord Carnarvon’s peaceful progress through Ireland has been an enormous iutlux of tourists to that country. Fifteen hundred from England, Scotland, and \\ ales, landed at Dublin on 24th August. A magistrate aud 100 police went to a place near Ballyrugget, County Killarney, on 27th August to evict tenants, When they arrived the chapel bell tolled, and 2000 persons assembled and attacked the officers, preventing them from accomplishing the proposed evictions. The police were compelled to charge the mob with bayonets, and a fierce encounter ensued. Many on both sides were stoned and stabbed. Agrarian outrages are increasing in County Kerry every day. Cases of incendiarism and hamstringing cattle are reported. Charlestown, .South Carolina, was struck by a cyclone on the morning of 28th August. One-fourth of the houses in the city were unrooftd or damaged. Shipping interests in New York are| in a deplorable state. Hundreds of unchnrtered craft are in the docks. Freights are expected to go even still lower iu the next two years. Owing to the smallpox epidemic at Montreal, the theatres are closed aud disinfectants ats used for watering (he streets.