AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.
TERRIBLE DISTRESS, FAMINE & DEriTITaUON.v j A PICTURE OF DESOLATION. 5 (Per Mail Steamer). . -.••. The most tangible thing m Ireland (says the Despatch of December Slit), isr the distress and misery of the people-id: the Western distriots, particularly in t places where there are hundreds :ot evicted families without shelter and who are starving. Information . about these is deprived chiefly -from- the Catholic priests, -whose -own resorces are all exhausted, and about whose dwellings these unfortunate creatures are gather*; ing, crying pitcously for a potato or a little corn meal . Starvation is reported at Balinasloe.: A husband and wife, were found dead) on the sth from this* cause. Large numbers of farmers at Skibbereen with holdings of from one to twenty acres, are absolutely without stock or food.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 62, 6 February 1883, Page 2
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130AFFAIRS IN IRELAND. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 62, 6 February 1883, Page 2
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