IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 17 August 1907, Page 2

IRELAND.

THE BELFAST STRIKES. FLAX SPINNERS THROWN IDLE. ' London, August 15. Tlio Belfast flax-spiuncrs havo been given a fortnight's notice. Thirty | liiotisanil workers will. be thrown idle owing to the disorganisation arising from the strike. « A DYNAMITE OUTRAGE.

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE LORD ASHTOWN.

London,. August 15. Lord Ashtown, the noted Irish landlord, had a narrow escape from assassination at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. He believes the attempt was planned, not, locally, but in the West of Ireland, where he had been under police protection. His lordship was asleep in the room o.er the drawing-room at Qlonshiry Lodge, his shooting estate in County Wexford. The only other occupants of the lodge were the gamekeeper and his wife and two maids. An explosion, which was heard a mile' away, wrecked the drawing-room and v hurled the doors and furniture across t'ne hall It shattered his lordship's window-shutters and wrenched a. marble in.intlepiece in the bedroom from the wall. The curtains and carpet of the dz,i wing-room broke into flames, but the . fire was quickly extinguished. The miscreants had placed ft charge l of powder on the drawing-room window-- " ( sill with fragments of metal. A pot in a specially-made iron frame, • ~ which was intended to increase the forca of the explosion, was found with threo - fuses, each of which was burnt. Sacks saturated with paraffin were hurled after ';. ho explosion into the drawing-room. > A ladder, which was too short to reach 1 G Loid Ashtown's window, was found below, shattered. - Lord Ashtown is the leading spirit of' the Irish Unionist Alliance, which pub- ' li'iies a monthly report of political outrages and extracts from agitators* speeches. No. clue of the perpetrators' identity has been discovered. .

MILITARY INTERFERENCE JUSTI-

FIED. Received 16th, 11.16 p.m. London, August 16. * Mr Birrell, replying to Labor members, declared the civic authorities at Belfast were justified in requisitioning the miltnry as a precautionary measure. Everyone deplored the deaths, but had the mob .obtained the mastery, the loss of life would have been terrible.

CARTERS' STRIKE SETTLED. % MUTUAL CONCESSIONS. I Received 16th, 11.16 p.m. ijfj | London, August 16. \si«j The carters' strike at Belfast bos been ' [Settled. They were conceded in some / cases five shillings a week rise, the average increase being 2s. ,The employers' % freedom to employ whom they choose is -/j| recognised. 1