LIFE IN IRELAND.

Kumara Times, Issue 1083, 20 March 1880, Page 4

LIFE IN IRELAND.

Meanwhile, process-serving in Ireland continues to be so dangerous a business a a to require the protection of the bailiff by the police. The police are in strong force

at Maam, one of the wildest and most mountainous districts of Connemara, where the property is owned by Colonel Clement and where the tenants have not paid rent for three years past. They (the police have had to take sample provisions with them, so that they may not be starved by the determination of the inhabitants.not to supply them with food. The house of a bailiff who had received processes to serve on Colonel Clement’s estate had been broken into by the mob,

and 29 out of a total of 41 processes stolen and destroyed. In trying to serve ejectments on the estate of Mr Harris Browne, at Kruckuckard, the bailiff and the police protecting him, met with great opposition, being assailed by three hundred women armed with heavy sticks. A halt was ordered, and the women were remonstrated with, but all arguments failed, and an indescribable scene ensued, the police forcing their way through the mob with fixed bayonets, the Inspector heading with drawm sabre, and several of the women receiving bayonet thrusts. Reaching the house of the man upon whom the process was to be served, the police found a crowd of about 400 women surrounding the house, determined to offer all the resistance in their power. The police were again obliged to use their weapons, and several more women were wounded. The bailiff was finally enabled to post his notice upon the door, and that dene, had to leave the village surrounded by a guard of police, A bailiff in Ireland ought to have a good salary. FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Disturbances attending the ejectment notices upon tenants who either cannot or will not pay their rents in Ireland still continue, f.t needed thepresence of a hundred policeman to enable a process server to serve these notices upon certain tenants on Mr Martin’s estate, near Aughterard, County Galway. 'Vvhile serving notices on tHo ostato of Mr Hans Brown, in County Mayo, the process server, named Langley, was severely handled by the people, and his processes taken from him and destroyed. He was stripped and left nude in a field, from which he had to make his way to the nearest constabulary barracks for clothes. A small body of 35 or 40 men was set forward, but they were kept at bay by about 400 women, who stood on the road leading to Knockrickard and refused to let them pass. The arrival of the main body of police was received with groans and shoots of defiance, and cries of ‘ ‘ Where is Langley ?” The process server having been discovered in the midst of the police all the women made an indiscriminate charge, with the view of . securing him and his precious burden. A scene of the wildest excitemet ensued! The sub-inspectors drew their swords and rushed into the midst of the women, most of whom were barefooted and bareheaded A young woman named Mary Fahey received a terrible gash on the back of the hand. Another woman was wounded by a bayonet thrust in the- arm, whilst several were knocked down, trampled upon, their faces blackened, and their garments torn. Most of the constabulary behaved manfully under the circumstances, tut a few exhibited a cruel savagery which was shocking to behold, thrusting at the breasts of the women with the but ends of their rifles. The charge to capture Langley was repulsed, and the resident maoist-ate remonstrated with the women. ° “We have a duty to perform ” he said, “ and though it be disagreeable, yet we still must do it.” The men, in the meantime stood motionless, looking on, and inciting the women to resistance. A voice from the cried, “ We don’t want to do anything to the police at all.” Another said, “Every policeman had a mother like us, and they ought not to be doin* the dirty work they are to-day.” A third man exclaimed, “ Let them stand or fire and we will do the same.” Mr M'Sheedy’ theresident magistrate, then said, “ Retire now, let us do our duty ; I should be sorry to see a hair of your heads hurt ” A voice shouted, “We are starving’- we want something to eat, and here is what we are getting,” Again the anger of the women, fierce beyond belief, was on the point of bursting upon the police in a second charge, when the two subinspectors rushed past the front rank with sabres drawn, one of them shouting, “111 drive at to your heart,” turning the • point and actually touching with it the lips of the women addressed. The men could no longer control themselves, and' rushed past the women, and confronting the constabulary, shouted, “ Put up your swords, we have but one life to lose, and we we have but one life to lose, and we are are now on;the point of it. Better die now then hereafter of hunger,” The police, however, continued, their march, the women every now and again making a rush for Langley. After some further altercation the magistrate ordered the women to be removed. A scene then * almost baffles description. Many of the constabulary dragged the women by the hair, threw them on the ground, and one young stripling actually struck with the butt-end of his rifle a poor old women. Several more received cuts on their hands and heaps ; and one fgirl named Bridget M'Gorn, received a deep wound on the creek. A man named Oarroll was wounded in the hand. At last the women were removed, the double line of police was formed, and Langley posted the notice on the door. The police then left for their several stations.