CONDITIONS IN IRELAND
ACQUITTALS BY A JURY,
LONDON, January 26.
A Dnblin jury acquitted the three cattle-drivers who were tried fruitlessly before Mr Justice Wright in November last. Nine others -were acquitted on a charge of riot and conspiracy, white the jury disagreed in regard to a charge of unlawful /assembly.
January 27.
Owing to threatened evictions for nonpayment of rent, the Leitrim County Council has resolved to warn the Government to restrain the landlords or $he lives of the latter will be risked. Sergeant Cleary and Constable Fitzroy, while on duty at Summer Hill, Wicklow, were fired fit in the might time. Nine pellets struck Constable Fitzroy's head, and one penetrated his eye and palate.
A great German statistician says that^ the entire cost of the Boer war for England uorks out at 14s per man ncr day.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 26
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139CONDITIONS IN IRELAND Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 26
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