THE STATE OF IRELAND.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8892, 12 August 1907, Page 2

THE STATE OF IRELAND.

Tress Association - Copyright. London, August 10. Tho Houso of Lords by 152 to 34, vitally amended tho Evicted Tenants Bill, compelling the Estates Commissioners to show tho necessity for the compulsory acquisition of land and to base the price of same on tho loss the owner sustain? through bning deprived of lus property, also providing a court of appeal. Another amendment limits those reinstated to 2000

The Belfast Strike

London, August 11. Strikers at Belfast seriously stoned a party of the Berkshire regiment who were guarding a number of carts. Several of the regiment wore badly hurt. p>The officer commanding a pirty of the Berkshire Regiment, Belfast, received a wound from a bottlo during the stoning incident. Sir Antony MacDonnoll b«is gone to Belfast. Messrs Workman, Clark and Co., shipbuilders, Belfast, have temporarily discharged 2000 hands, owing I to their inability to obtain material.