IRISH RENT AGITATION.

Patea Mail, 20 November 1880, Page 3

IRISH RENT AGITATION.

A general strike against rents is threatened. The Land Leaguers and Fenians have coalesced. The enmity is increasing between Catholic and Protestant, and between North and South.

Parnell has issued a circular to the trading and farming classes of Cork, inviting them to a meeting to bo held on Saturday next for the purpose of establishing a land league on a new basis, intending to give the new body a wider scope. Mr Dillon, member of Parliament for Tipperary, speaking at Donegal, said that before Christmas there would he a branch of the Land League in every county of Ulster. Steps arc being taken to form an influential committee of English Liberals to strengthen the hands of Government in dealing with the disorder in Ireland, and to urge the necessity for immediate measures for the protection of life and property. TJ lo Globe learns, from good authority, that the quantity of firearms imported into Ireland from America and the continent greatly exceeds the official estimates. The violent resolutions passed by Orange lodges in condemnation of the Land agitators attract much attention. In consequence of the disturbed state of the West of Ireland, a detachment of troops will be sent to Bautry. A gunboat is anchored at Boar Haven, near Castletown. SHOOTING A LANDLORD. Additional particulars have been received of the outrage near Skibbereen, County Cork, when a landlord named Hutchins and his driver wore shot, and and the latter killed. They show that the second shot was fired at Hutchins, who escaped by jumping off the car. The affair occurred in broad daylight. No arrests have been made. Hutchins is a Justice of the Peace, and lie and his driver were armed with pistols, but did not use them. One person made the attack. WHAT THE u times” SAYS. The Times says that the Government intention to prosecute the agitators has already produced a lull in the agitation. The second-rate loaders arc cowed, and the Land League arc unusually quiet. Mr Parnell at Longford uttered an uncertain sound, and it is suspected that he has not yet made up his mind what course to pursue, and that his followers share his hesitation.