AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.
CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY. MOTHER AND SON COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Received December 15, 4.34 p.m. LONDON, December 14. Mrs Minnie Walsh and her son, Percy Walsh, were committed for trial at Dublin on a charge of conspiracy to obtain from Lord Ashtown and Cnenevix Trench, his agent, ancl a relative, money by false pretences; also with conspiracy to incite Patrick Cahill, J. Ward, and others unknown to blow up a building at Woodawn, Lord Ashtown's Galway seat. CATTLE DRIVING. MR BIRRELL DEFENDS GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE. THE CRIMES ACT. Received December 15, 4.34 p.m. LONDON, December 14.
The Hon. A. Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, replying to a deputation of landlords at Dublin, declared that cattle driving was illegal, and indefensible from every standpoint. He denied that the Government stood by with folded arnl« and had taken no active steps to suppress the offence. Of the 225 persons bound over none had offended again. The graziers had failed to assist the police. The agitation would not be allowed to affect the price of land. Legislation might soon be forthcoming to break-up the Rosscommon and Galway grass lands, and so increase the number of those on the soil. The Government had refrained from enforcing the Crimes Act for reasons which he was quite prepared to state at the proper place and time. - FARMS CLEARED. LONDON, December 13. Cattle-driving cases are being reported. Four farms at Tulsk, Tonbare, and Stokestown were cleared of cattle, although the police did their best to prevent the "drivers" carrying through their object. At Ballinasloe, a market town in the eastern part of County Galway, sixteen persons charged with unlawfully assembly (i.e., cattle-driving) were bound over to keep the peace. "WHITEiiOYISM."
THREATENING A WOMAN LAND HOLDER. Received December 15, 4.34 p.m. LONDON, December 14. Thomas Smyth, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment at the Wicklow assizes on a charge of "whiteboyism." He delivered a letter which threatened a woman's life unless she surrendered two farms, which she had recently purchased. Seeing that the woman was not afraid he fired two shots over her head.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9006, 16 December 1907, Page 5
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347AFFAIRS IN IRELAND. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9006, 16 December 1907, Page 5
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