IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1919, Page 5

IRELAND.

■ LANDING'OP TROOPS. ■ j NO CONTRABAND IN SUSPECTED VESSEL. By Tolegraph.—Press Aasn- Copyright. Received Sept. 2, 2.40 p.m. London, "Sept. 1. A troopship landed a considerable number of troops at Cork on Sunday to reinforce the local police and military, preparatory to the arrival of the Hampshire Coast, which was arrested at sea. The bulk of the cargo was discharged on Monday, but nothing was discovered to give oredence to the rumor that the steamer was engaged in gun-running.— Aua. N.Z. Cable Assoc. SMUGGLING OF MUNITIONS. BELIEF OF "CORK POLICE. Received Sept. 2, 8.55 p.m. London, Sept. 1. The Cork police have reason to believe that munitions have entered Ireland recently. There is definite information ,that a vessel left London on Augus; 27 with a view to gun-running, but the Hampshire Coast sailed on August 18 Moreover, the description does not tally with that of the suspected vessel.-—Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assn.. THE HOUSING SCHEME. Received Sept. 2, 11.5 p.m. London, Sept. 1- ' The Dublin Council considered the National Development Company's offer, and passect' a resolution requesting the syndicate to deposit a million sterling in order to put the matter on a business basis and as a guarantee of good faith—Aub.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [The National Development Company circularised the councils announcing that a powerful Irish-American and Scottish concern had arranged for an advance of 150 millions for an Irish housing scheme. The money will be advanced to the counvils and is repayable at 5 per cent, in fifty years, when the debt will be automatically extinguished.]