THE IRISH PROBLEM.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOOi.-lION
■ADVICE TO IRISH. PARIS, January 27
One of the New Zealand delegates to the Irish Race Congress here described as “clap-trap” a suggestion that Ireland should boycott British goods. He added: “It would pay Irishmen to remember that commerco knows no nationality. Irish trade must aim at the best markets, wherever they are to be found, and it must for a long time, bei dependent on British shipping.” Ireland, he added, was still in “the spade and potato stage of development Her welfare depended on getting her out of it as soon as possible. Her water power was sufficient for a population of ten millions. It must bo pressed into service, just as it bad been in New Zealand.
STRIKE SETTLED. LONDON, January 26. A. Dublin message states that the South Eastern railway dispute has been settled-
IRISH STRIKERS. LONDON,. January 27. Following a Labour, dispute, Mayor Hallinnn, proprietor of a flower mill at Mallow was kidnapped whilst motoring. A fortnight later the Republican police offiqen ,after! a search, found him and released him. Meanwhile some armed mon as a reprisal kidnapped the local Transporters’ Union Secretary, when he was addressing the strikers. ' Feeling is running high. The workers have now taken possession of the flour mills and have hoisted the red flag. Some men hidden by the roadside behind a hedge, fired on the Sub-Sheriff of Clonmel, named Buggy,' who was motoring with a party of police, and bailiffs in order to exeoute the 'Land Commission’s Board of Works decree. A police sergeant was wounded and Mr Buggy was kidnapped. He was subsequently released.
ULSTER POSITION. 'Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON. Jan. 27. Sir J. Craig spqaking at the Unionist Council luncheon in Belfast defended the agreement with Mr Collins. He said no surrender of Ulster’rights was involved. Ulster would continue her own Parliament but wished to live at peace with the Free State. Craig was re-elected chairman of the Council.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1922, Page 3
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332THE IRISH PROBLEM. Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1922, Page 3
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