THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE." HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, May 4, 1916 POOR OLD IRELAND AGAIN.

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THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE." HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, May 4, 1916 POOR OLD IRELAND AGAIN.

History has been repeating itself again. Ireland broke out suddenly last week in that beautiful hot-bed of rebellion, Dublin, and the result will go down to posterity, as with other traitorous movements by

the Fenians and Sinn Feiners, with another added murderous insult to peaceful subjects of the Crown. The wholesale damage done to the streets of Ireland1 s capital city, its grand post office and principal thoroughfare, is scarcely yet comprehended, while the large number of killed and wounded on both sides through the murderous tactics of the revolutionists is yet to be detailed in full. But fortunately the rebels were, after days of civil warfare, hopelessly outnumbered and surrounded by the King's soldiers and police. Ihe authorities now have another large contract on in trying hundreds and hundreds of traitors for their lives. May this trying ordeal be accomplished quick and lively; and may the arch-fiend, Sir Roger Casement, whose treatment by his country has been most generous, meet with despatch, that doom which awaits all rascally, blood-thirsty hounds prompted by the Kaiser and his minions.

Dublin as a business city is ruined, and, it is Gabled, it will be impossible for capitalists to seek profitable employment for money there for years to come. The riot of Dublin was no doubt one of the greatest surprises the' British Government has met with during the past decade; it certainly was for a few days the cause of setting aside all interest in the great European war. But the wonder is how the Sinn Fieners managed to gei tons of arms and ammunition (all made in Germany) secietedin the cellars of " " liberty Hall," situate in the midst of a large central population Uke Dublia, it is hard to say, and goes to make one think that the authorities must have been sleeping for a long period past. There is much to be heard upon this subject, no doubt, later on.