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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 9, 20 June 1884, Page 27

The Tuam Herald says :— lt may be a curious fact, but none the less true, that there are exported from Tuam to France every week over 100 barrels of bobbins manufactured by the Messrs. liishworth of the Cuiras>h Mills Factory. A great part of Bengal is evangelized by Belgian missionaries; one of whom, Father Grosjean, has lately published an interesting account of the work done there,iu the " Precis Histcriques." During 1883, F. Grosjean visited nearly all the missionary stations, and gives, most consoling reports of their progress. The conversions in the past years are estimated as follows : 1879-80, 150 ; 1880-81, 307 ; 1881-82, 502 ; 1882-S3. 785. These 'figures are sufficiently remarkable in their rapid increase to be well worthy of note. Curiously enough, of last year's harvest of bouls, no less than 479 are conversions of Protestants, as against only 316 of Pagans. The vicaiiate, which has 17,500 Catholics, is double what it was in 1859. The flock is tnus made up : Native race, 5,500 ; European face, 5,500 ; mixed races, 6,500. "No Catholic is safe about the suburbs of Dungannon after dark " is the statement made by the Tyrone correspondent of one of the daily papers, and the reports of Orange rowdyism which have found their way into the newspapers this week would go .to pi ov.: that his statement is not far from the truth. Oue report asserts tl.:u, a deliberate attempt was made to shoot a party of five Catholics wim were driving home through Dungannon on Monday night. T\\ <.• shots were fired at the car, it is alleged, by four men who were lying in ambush beside the entrance gate of Mr. T. A. Dickson, M.P. Fortunately neither of the shots took effect. A serious riot took place in Coalisland, county Tyrone, on Monday, owing, it is reported, to a gratuitous attack made by a body of Orangemen on three Catholic bands. Many people were seriously injured, and the members of one band which came from a distance had to remain in Coalisland al 1 night, as the police were not strong enough to escort them home safely 1 — Nation, April 19.