IRISH MATTERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1582, 15 December 1885, Page 2

IRISH MATTERS.

Owing to recent civilian attacks a large party of the King's Royal Bides broke out of Limerick barracki on the night of November 10, and made an indiscriminate attack upon people residing m the vicinity. Several were badly stabbed. The disturbance was with difficulty quelled. , The soldiers were conveyed back to the barracks by the police. While a man namtd Michael Nargent .was proceeding to Ballymabon on the 10th to record his vote adverse io tho Nationalist party, he was dragged from his car and beaten nearly to death. Roger O'Brien, a prominent leagner, was shot at Athlone the same day on account of agrarian trouble. Dean O'Loghlin fell dead on Nov. 9th while at Mass m the University Collegt at Dublin. The Earl of Carnarvon declined to m. terfere with the conviction of eleven men charged with conspiracy to murder an obnoxions landlord of Buranilla. Five of the convicted men were given twelve months' imprisonment. A London cablegram of November Bth, says that a movement of great importance is being quietly organised among various societies of Irishmen. It is proposed to form a vast federation, comprising all representatives of organised labor m Ireland for the sole purpose of keeping out of the country all t»oods of British manufacture, with the exception of such articles as Ireland is unable to produce. The movement is warmly approved of by Mr Michael Davitt, and a deputation waited on Mr Parnell to secure his approval and that of the Irith National League. Great excitement was caused at Killarney on the Bth by an auction of a number of cattle that had been seized for non-pay-ment of rant. Representatives of the Irish National League bought the animals m for £60. Father O'Connor made a speech, m which he encouraged the peasants, 2000 of whom were present, but advised them against any breach, flf the peace. The nomination of Sir Thomas Esmond for M.P. was ratified at Dublin on Nov. 8. He pledged himself unflinchingly for Mr Parnell. •. Viscount Hawarden has been appointed Lord Lieutenant of County Tipperary m place of Viscount Lismort, resigned. A large crowd of factory girls mobbed Mr Charles Edward Lewis, Conservative member of Parliament, at Londonderry, on Nor. 12. They treated him m a most , shameful manner. Three hundred tenant farmers at Yotighall, Gounty Cork, demanded 9$ per cent reduction m their rents. Tttj© landlords' offer of als per cent, reduction was rejected, and the tenants deposited the rent money they proposed to pay m the Banks. At Carrick-on-'Suir, on November 14, a mob of 2000 persons armed with pitah? forks and scythes, expelled the police, who were trying to serve writes of eject* ment.