IRISH MATTERS.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 137, 16 January 1886, Page 4

IRISH MATTERS.

The Irish cattle dealers assert they have successfully boycotted the Cork Steam Packet Company, which has passed its last dividend, and its collapse is considered certain. Advices received from the various counties of Ireland state that hundreds of Irish landlords are in deepest distress, and some of the smaller landlords are on the eve of starvation, owing to the fact that they have not received their rents for some time time past. It is estimated that not ac much a? £5,000 in rents has been paid in the agricultural districts since the beginning of November. Society circles in Cork were agitated on December 14, over the elopement of Miss Mariana Long with her father's groom, a prepossessing young fellow named Hodnett. The runaways were married in Dublin, where they were captured. The young lady was sent back to her father, and Hodnett to gaol for 6 months. In an interview at Dublin, on Dec. 16th, Harrington said that 1,600 National League branches, averaging 300 members, had donated £12,000 to the Executive of the League during the present year. He said that some of »be new Nationalist members would receive salaries from the League. The extinction of the Liberals, he thought, would immensely benefit the Irish cause. Harrington also Baid that boycotting was outside the League's programme and practice, and was confined to a few branches. The Kxecutive, he said, would stop boycotting whenever such power was misused. Michael Davit t, speaking in Dublin on the same day, said the League would open special industries, if the workmen would co operate. He announced that he would forthwith commence an agitation to abolish landlordism in towns, and to secure to the tenants the benefit farmers enjoy through the Land Act. He denounced the Earl of Pembroke and the Earl of Meath for drawing large sums of money from Dublin that rightfully belonged to the people.