THE LORD LIEUTENANT'S TOUR.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 122, 3 October 1885, Page 4

THE LORD LIEUTENANT'S TOUR.

Earl Carnarvon, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, has made a very successful tour of Ireland, At Galway he delivered an address in which he said that he hoped to see in his own lifetime the ancient prosperity of Galway revived. He regretted the universal depression in labour, which, he said, was owing to foreign competition, and urged the labourers to study the interests of their employers. He hoped that the Irish fisheries aud other industries would be developed, and expressed the conviction that times would soon mend. The cordial reception which has hitherto marked the progress of the tour of Earl Carnarvon received a check to-night, while the Lord Lieutenant was passing through Boyletown, in the county of Roscommon. The majority of the people of the town were determined that no reception should be given to the Earl which could be construed aa a popular expression of the good will of the inhabitants towards the present Government, and they worked upon the minds of the members of various public bodies so that the latter became frightened and refused to vote addresses or to recognise the visit of the Lord-Lieutenant in any way. A corporate official who had been dismissed from his post read an address on behalf of the loyal minority of the town, and Earl Carnarvon replied by simply praising the scenery in the vicinity and expressing grateful thanks for the universal kindness shown him. One result of Lord Carnarvon's peaceful progress through Ireland has been an enormous influx of British tourists in that country. Fifteen hundred sightseers from England, Scotland, and Wales landed afc Dublin yesterday. The prevalence of cholera on the continent has doubtless contributed to this result, but the discovery that the "Wild Irishman " is by no means so wild as he has been described has been the chief factor in determining tourists in favour of the romatic scenery and superb salmon-fishing of thelrish lakes aud streams. This rush of visitors brings many thousands of pounds into Ireland.