Affairs in Ireland.
OPERATIONS OF THE COERCION ACT. Summary jurisdiction under the Coercion Act has been revoked in the Boroughs of Dublin, Limerick and Waterford, and in ten rural districts. MR WYNDHAM’S LAND BILL. In the course of a speech at a levee in Dublin, the Earl- of. Dudley, Viceroy of Ireland, ana unced that Mr Wyndham’s Irish Land Bill had been drafted. It exceeded all former Bills in generosity towards genuine tenants.* Notable landlords had been consulted in drafting the measure. BOYCOTTING IN SLIGO. In an action for damages for boycotting at Sligo, one of the defendants, Father Spellman, president of the Sligo branch of the Land League, did not appear, alleging that the plaintiffs solicitor in opening the case had sneered at the priesthood. Judge Morris declared that the “ shuffling and reprehensible priest ” was amenable to the law, and was not entitled to plead his sacred office, particularly when the heads of the Church everywhere condemned boycotting. He gave judgment for the full sum claimed, and regretted his inability to quintuple the amount.
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Manawatu Herald, 7 February 1903, Page 2
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175Affairs in Ireland. Manawatu Herald, 7 February 1903, Page 2
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