UNREST IN IRELAND.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3768, 18 June 1907, Page 3

UNREST IN IRELAND.

An Indiscreet Magistrate. Persons Sent to Gaol. London, June 14. In the House of Commons, Mr C. C. Craig, Conservative member for Antrim South, asked Mr Birrel, Secretary for Ireland, whether he was aware that Mr P. Kelly, a magistrate, had made a certain speech at New Inn, Galway, In this speech, Mr Craig stated the Magistrate had declared that if Lord Ashtown, a local landlord who is under constant strict police protection, lived at Killane or Loughrea (two other Galway towns), he would have been on a stretcher long ago, the same as John Blake. Mr Craig explained that John Blake was shot dead in 1883. The Magistrate, Mr Craig stated, added that the men of Woodlawn (in north-east Galway) lacked the courage and manliness to treat Lord Ashtown as he should be treated. Mr Birrel replied that the speech was under the consideration of the Government. London, June 15. Two Resident Magistrates at Birr, or Parsonstown, in King’s County, Ireland, have sent fifteen persons, charged with participating in driving sheep and cattle off Michael Byrne’s grazing farm, to gaol for a month, in default of their being bound over to be of good behaviour. There are now three hundred extra police in Birr. A cablegram published on Thursday last stated that unknown miscreants tied together the tails of a bull and a cow at Fairyhail Farm, Cloghjardan, King’s County. The cow’s tail was completely pulled off.