IRELAND.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 242, 18 February 1888, Page 5 (Supplement)

IRELAND.

London, February 13. Fifty thousand people assembled to-daytogi-eetMrSullivan, M.P., ex-Mayor of Dublin, who was released from gaol on February 1, and Mr Harrington, M.P. The proceedings were orderly, and no disturbance of any kind took place. The immense procession marched to Hyde Park, where addresses of sympathy with their cause and admiration at their conduct were presented to them. The Parnellites thank the Irish in Australia for the support they have given to the cause of Home Rule, and which has been an important factor in bringing the contest to a close.

London, February 13. The charges against Messrs Pyne and Gilhooly have been remanded. Mr Picton, M.P., will take the initiative in ! moving in the House of Commons the question. of privilege in connection with their arrest.

London, February 13. In the House of Commons, Lord George Hamilton, replying to Lord Charles Beresford, declined to produce the report of the Naval Lorda on the Intelligence Department of the Ad- , miralty.

London, February 14. Mil Parnell in a speech reiterated his statement that Lord Carnarvon's views on Home Rule had been identical with his own. Carnarvon had declared that an Irish Parliament was the only feasible concession to the wishes of the people of Ireland. Mr Balfour's claims , of the beneficial results of coercion ! were baseless. Coercion was only beginning in Ireland. Mr ParneH's indictment of the Government policy is regarded as feeble. London, February 14. Frank Byrne has urged the Fenian j Invincibles in New York to blow up the Liverpool Docks with dynamite. , London, February 11. The Government have decided not to 11 proclaim '* the meeting which is to be held at Loughrey by Mr J. ShawLefevre,

> London, February 11. ~Mr Joseph Douglas Pyn£ member for West Waterford, who' recently made his escape from-Lisfinsy OMtle, where he had entrenched himself to elude bis arrest, made way to the House of Commons, where he purposed taking his seat, Upon making his appearance outside St. Stephen's Mr Pyne was met by the police, who proceeded to execute the warrant charging him with inciting resistance to the Sheriff. Mr Pyne and his sympathisers violently* resisted the execution of the warrant, but was eventually taken into . custody. ' Mr Parnell last night moved an amendment to the Address-in-Reply to the speech from the throne. In the course of his remarks the* Irish leader said that operation of the Crimes Act in Ireland has alienated the sympathy of Irish people, and had even deitrpyed their respect for the law. The txecution of the provisions of the Act Mr Parnell declared to have been harsh, and not impartial.

London, February 11. Mr E. Stanhope, Secretary i for War, i stated in the Home of Commons Jastj night that he *m arranging * icheiie by which the .British forces could be mobilised at 45 hours' notice. Tht completion of the scheme was, he mentioned, "being pushed on with all possible decpatctu

LoNDOty February 12. The police authorities fitiate th»t Mr J. D. Erne, M.P M afl^r tiis. escape from his castle, which He hgicit fdrtifiecJi *»d Mr J. Gilhooly,'M.R; iiiUbded tov^i itnain in Sec^cy nntil ther« w^b a favourable opportunity of their attending the House of Commons, in order to bring the Detective 'Department into ridicule ; therefore ; the officers remained i outside the House to arrest them before entering it ;

Dublin,' February 11. Tremendous excitement hag been occasioned by the arrest of Mr J. Gilhoolv, M.P. for West Cork.

London, February 11., ■ The Right Hod. John Morley, refer- < ring to the decrease of crime in Ireland, mentioned in the Queen's Speecli,; attributed the diminution to the alliatice of the Irish and Liberal parties,! and not to the action -of this Ooyei?n-j

• , „ , , London, February 11. I A" "Royal Commission ' scdvfsqs ''tW t Imperial , pfovernmient M - to,, ,sgenci , £400,000 in developing ildfih^fisheries, ajso 'to extep'd J>J the the country, under a^giiar- j antee.

London, February 11. The Hon. A. J. Balfour, Secretary for Ireland, states that there is a notable decrease of boycotting in counties Kerry and Clare, where the National League has been suppressed.

London, February 10. Mr Gladstone, speaking in the House o* Commons, said he regarded the references made in the Queen's Speech to Ireland as a distinofc challenge. The Home Rulers denied thac there had been any diminution of crime, and invited the Government to produce proofs. He regretted that the Speech contained no intimation that local government woucl be granted to Ireland. Mr W. H. Smith in reply to Mr Gladstone stated that he would supply the Houso with ample proofs of the dccrose of crime in Ireland, and further remarked that the Government were prepared to extend equal local Government privileges to Ireland when the Irish people . showed that they were reconciled to the law.