IRISH AFFAIRS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2116, 26 June 1907, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS.

A DISAGREEMENT. ’ United Press Association— Copyright LONDON, June 24. The executive of the Sinn B 1 ®* so,its from the policy of the Nationalist Directory, whoso minimum demand it declares is a sovereign 1 arliament, with powers equal and to extensive to those of the British 1 ar liumont. . “CONCILIATING NOBODIES.” LONDON, June 24. Mr. Urc, Solicitor-General, in a speech at Manchester, said he was^ unable to conceive a groater mistake than a Liberal Government trimming and fashioning Bills to conciliate a pack of nobodics, carrying constituencies under their hats. HOME RULE DEMONSTRATION. LONDON, June 24. The Irish .League is initiating a great Home Rule demonstration throughout Ireland, and is asking Nationalist members of Die Commons, public boards, Gaelic atn letic societies, and other bodies to cooperate to make demand for self-go-vernment irresistible. INCITING TO VIOLENCE. LONDON, June 24. P Kelly, a local magistrate, has been remanded to gaol for a week for inciting to. violence. Feeling runs very high in Galway, and only Kelly’s secret arrest prevented a demonstration being organised on his arrival there. SERIOUS ANTI-GRAZING DISORDERS. I LONDON, June 24. 1 The anti-graing disturbances are so s serious that'the police in lonely parts ' of Roscommon are armed with, the ■ latest pattern of magazine rifle. | THE POTATO BLIGHT. j LONDON, June 24. 2 Potato blight has already appeared r in many parts of Ireland. The He 1 partment of Agriculture recommends - that immediate preventive measures n be taken. 1 A SERIOUS DISTURBANCE. Received June 25, 11.18 p.m. J LONDON, June 25. ;. The growth of the Sinn Finn organr isation in Ireland is becoming a more y important factor every weeOt. A 4 breach has developed between them and the Redmondites. Rival meetings f were held in some places. . A party of armed men assembled, outside the residence.of Henry-Blake, Holly Park, near Athenry, at night and fired ten shots at the windows and four more as Blake passed from one room to another. The inmates were uninjured. Blake holds a grass [t farm which he refuses to surrender. AGROUND.

NO DAMAGE DONE.

United Press Association—Copyright Received June 25, 6.57 p.m. SYDNEY, June 20. The cruiser Pyramus with the Go-vernor-General and. party aboard, returning from a visit to the northern'' territory, grounded on a sea reef fourteen miles from Eli.nders Island, near Cooktown on Sunday morning. The steamer Tsinan came to her assistance and made two ineffectual attempts to tow her off. A further attempt will be made at spring tide to-morrow. Northcote and party trams-,, ferred 'to-tha Tsinan. ' ~ It is reporfedsjthat so far the cruiser is