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Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1926, Page 3

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DUBLIN. Mr Timothy M. Healy, GovernorGeneral of the Irish Free State, in a debate before the historical society of Trinity College, challenged the pessimistic statement regarding Great Britain’s industrial future imrde by R. J. P. Mortished, an official of the Labour Party. Mr Healy, in a witty speech, said: “The English held the Trish in thrall many centuries by the simplest of all devices; they pretended they were a very stupid people and we were very clever. That was the source of our oppression. We are not a clover people and the English are, and I do not believe, with the grip they have of the world’s markets, in any decline in their wealth or opportunities.”

Air Mortished took the view that Britain would never he as prosperous as it was and that it would not regain its economic, commercial, and financial dominance in Europe and the rest of the world. If England exported a good deal of its population, and had to rely on its own resources to feed and clothe the remainder, lie believed Ireland would he profoundly affected and he driven to think more of the home markets and the markets of the world outside of Britain. SERVANT CHARGED WITH INFANTICIDE. LONDON. Jessie Fairbarn (19), a domestic servant, of Sutton, was at Croydon committed for trial, charged with the murder of her one-year-old baby by throwing the child into the Wandle. Evidence was given that prisoner was of erratic temperament and liable to sudden fits of temper. She had had much difficulty at different times in finding a home for her baby. Each change seemed to worry her more. To the police she said: “ I threw it over the bridge at Alitcham. Nobody wants my child. It hurt me very much to do it. I had nowhere for It to go.” It was stated that soon after the girl had left her mistress’s house a letter was found from a cousin who was filling tp tflK? the bflby.