IRISH MATTERS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 229, 19 November 1887, Page 5

IRISH MATTERS.

I At the trial of the men for the raid on i fanner Sexton's house, where Whelehan was murdered, Callinan, an iuformer, testified that he planned it in order to deliver his companions over to the pol ice, and that all his expenses were paid by the Government. The Fenian fraternity in London, Paris, and New York, have been profoundly moved by these disclosures, and are beginning to believe that the Government can checkmate them at evexy turn. The prisoners were committed for trial on the Bth, and the populace cheered them as they were led back to gaol. J. M. Healy, M.P., spoke at a Longford meeting on Oct. 9th. The platform fell, and the Government reporter was injured. Healy chaffed him while he was suffering on his first trial of a plank bed. In his speech the Irish M.P. said there would soon be no more landlords left in Ireland, and he hoped the mortgages of Lord Granard would, not leave him a brass farthing to bless himself with. Thirty-eight horses belonging to the hunting stud of Capt. Halloway (says a Dublin dispatch of the lOfch Oct.) have been maliciously poisoned. Ten had died. An immense meeting under the auspices of the League was hold on Sunday, the Bth, at the confluence of the Suir and Barrow rivers, Ireland. The police had no know- : ledge of the meeting. I Major Saunderson, the Orange leader and M.P., made a speech in Belfast on October 17th, and spoke in high praise of the policy of the Chamberlain and his followers. He said the Government was not worth its salt unless ifc set the Parnellites to oakum picking in Kilmainham Jail. An immense meeting was held in the Ronndrooni, Dublin, October 11, to protest against the prosecutions directed by the Government against the press. i The London Daily News' Dublin correspondent writes October 11, that he has received information from an influential quarter that the Government will, within a fortnight, suppress the League of Nationalists.