IRISH AFFAIRS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9049, 7 February 1908, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

MR W. H. LONG'S MOTION . DEFEATED. CRIME SHOWS A DECREASE. Received February 6, x 9 a.m. LONDON, February 5. In the House of Commons, the amendment to the Address-in-Reply, moved by the Right Hon. W. H. Long (a Chief Secretary for Ireland in the Balfour Administration), and which proposed the adoption of a regulation dealing with Irish affairs, was rejected by 414 to 115. Sir Edward Carson (late SolicitorGeneral) said if the Government considered that serious offences in Ireland were inevitable because there was not land enough for all, that was tantmount to preaching Socialism pure and simple. ( Mr Cherry (Attorney-General "for Ireland) insisted that the amount of crime in.lreland in 1907 was less by half than the average for the five preceding years. He added that by trusting to ordinary law the Government hoped to enlist the sympathies of the people on the side of law. so securing tranquility.

i OBSTRUCTING CONGESTED DISTRICTS BOARD. IRISH LEAGUERS ARRESTED. Received February 6. 9 a.m. LONDON, February 5. Fifteen Irish Leaguers at Caldwon, County Mayo, have been arrested for preventing the Congested Districts Board allotting grazing land in French Park to strangers in the district. Four were discharged and the remainder committed for trial.