IRISH AFFAIRS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2120, 1 July 1907, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS.

United Press Association —Copy right LONDON, June 88. Mr. Birrell has introduced a Bill to enable estimates to be introduced to compulsorily reinstate'2ooo evicted persons, compensating the sitting tenants who are disturbed, or to transfer them to other land. It is - estimated 80,000 will bet required. The cost of reinstating ahd equipping the untenanted land will be home by - a reserve fund of £175,000, and thereafter by the Land iJ Commission- • or’s vote. , , , , Irish Unionists calculate the cost of relieving the 2000 evicted tenants at nearly two millions: " They fear this will fall upon the Land Purchase Fund. , ~ The Morning Post states that Mr; Asquith, with a view of relieving the deadlock, arranged that National Debt Commissioners should advance! tlie Irish Land Purchase Fund sis: millions, to enable the Estate Com;—, missioners to complete purchases al"’ ready agreed on; hence the issue oi Irish land stock at the present low rate of 84 will bo avoided. Received June 30; 4.30 p.m. LONDON, June 29. Thirteen out of seventeen defendants at Birr, for removing cattle from i grazing farm were ordered to hnd bail for £lO. They defiantly refused And were sent to Tullamore gaol for two months. . The -crowd stoned 150 police escorting the prisoners, lhe police were compelled to charge the mob and 26. including six policemen, were injured. -