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Boxing Day conflict in Timaru, 1879

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Boxing Day conflict in Timaru, 1879

Irish Protestants and Catholics brought a long tradition of sectarian conflict to New Zealand. This excerpt from a December 1879 report in the Timaru Herald describes a confrontation between Protestants, described as 'the Orange party', and local Irish Catholics.

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National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past

Reference: Timaru Herald, 27 December 1879, p. 2

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

John Stenhouse, Religion and society – Sectarian conflicts, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/document/28411/boxing-day-conflict-in-timaru-1879 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John Stenhouse, i tāngia i te 23 March 2011.