IRELAND

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 171, 25 September 1886, Page 3

IRELAND

• Atf DungarmonV on "August 16, bands "of Nationalists paraded the Protoatant ■ quarter of 1 i.the toTyn^eiiounqi^g- the f residents there. ,A' , riot ensued, ( ajad eoveraV'persons were, mj area., ; 'Ihe ponce prevented deatforate fighting ' ,by foromtf f cbeir way between 1 the CatholiofT and Protestants.- • „. „ >•. ' > , , . <■ , ■• ■ According t to the, "IriHh Tlmea", (Loyalist)-. Pnr,nell is about to embrace Ronian Catholicism. ' The Convention of Irish sympathisers, in , eesMon m Chicago duringlthe middle of August, • excited some attention, ion the of the .Lonioii i)K*es.* The' '^Standard" Paid iho ' reason why the Home Rule a>,ib6ralB found so lltt'o encouragement t»iere wap the dependency of the Pdtnellites on American donations," and i they oannot have money for nothing. Although they\aie allowed to try .what W, possible with Gladstone ,and Constitutionalism, the Ainerican-Indh feeling favours thp old straggle. The •"rimes" oftbe 20th gave' prominence 'in ■ its columns to a letter* suggesting the prosecution for treaeon, on, their return home' of the Canadian delegates ard other British subjects who floured in the Chicago Convention. Arehblehop Crobe, in lamaddresß at Milltown, Malbay.on (VuguatJSlst, wbilo aqvieing modera-> l t'on f said |the ,people should, exhibit sufficient Brmneaa to' show th 6 Government that if war was made upon them they would resi"t.' He cautioned them to avoid crime, but exhorted 1 them to continue necessary agitations until the rijrhtB of Ireland were restored. Evictions at Gtoneedave, district of Donegal, were concluded on August 22. The totai amount of rents concerned does übt exceed £50 yearly. There were 150 policemen arid bailiffs and 60 cars and boats engaged (or 11 days in the proceedings, at a cost of £100 per duy. Theueople were steeped in poverty, and the scenes are described as pitifuj. An immense meeting waß held at. Carrick-on-Suir on August 23 m aj^ o f fc ne Iriah PttrJiauientary /fund. Reßolutiona were adopted declaring that the people would continue the • Home Rule' etrußule for years, if necessary. The wildest enthusiasm was exhibited, the audience standing wih uncovered heads and singing "God Save Ireland," Large sums of money were subscribed. The ourragh of fiildaro is being put in readfneea to receive five additional regiments of infantry and an additional regiment of cavalry, to be used in assisting the work of eviction during the- coming winter. The Secretary of the Irish-A.meriean Parliamentary Fund teleeraphed on Augußt 2i— £3,000 to Harrington, of Dublin, to assist the peoyle recently evicted at Goneedave and other piace a . General Sir Redvera Buller started on his Irish mission, August 26, going first to Dublin. His exact functions and. powers are not known. A seal ion of the opposition in ' Parliament believes the mission to be the first step toward placing Ireland under martial law.