Affairs in Treland.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 91, 12 March 1884, Page 2

Affairs m Treland.

The' British Home ' Office, ami the police have been warned that; serious steps have been takeu to -perpetrate further outrages m England, the means being furnished by the-New : Yorlrlrish Word's O'DonneU Vebgeanc'e Fundf ! The Magistrates and the police prevented a National League meeting at Killawallen on the 26th, and in -the melee two women were knocked down, and one had several ribs, broken. The' ; Nationalists 'meeting at Newport on the 27th was, however, m spite of the ''storm that raged at 1 the time, 1 attended by at '.least lOjQOO people. Muytie, Biggar, ain^ O'Brien!, M.'sP.i were there and also "many priests. A resolution was t pas ied declaring the last Act iuudt^'Vate, and the emigration scheme a brntal blunden Meetings were ajso held at Parsqns r town and' Edgtwbrth,' ! ' ' : ', I William Me^gle, an important witr ne.ss m the Phoenix. Park trials, ha* .^sked protection ' the r Dublin * authorities . His lite is made miserable, owing to continued prosecution and frequent assaults, which he suffers attHe hands Of sympithisfer3 .witnthe mur'&jre'rs. '" '" ..' '' ; "'' '-■■■'"' ' j Michael Dalvitt delivered a lecture 1 at Newcastle-on-Tyne* on February 13, on the '"Irish problem, and itß solu-; tion;" The lecturer was received with persistent howling and hissing 1 , and, a' rush was made for the platform: Thirty policemen interfered, and Davitt drew a revolver, which, he :held m his hand for some minutes. He summoned the occupants of the, gallery to eject the distijrbets; from ' the hall, which] they succeeded m doing, being assisted! by the police* There was fifarae flght-j ing ;; whon thei disturbers were-being ej ected, a»d- several - persons were severely wounded; : ',?.''!■• |