BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
AFFAIRS IN IRELAND
Received February 12, 11.55 p.m. LONDON, February 12. When the House of Commons in Committee were: dealing with the question of voting the expenses in connection with the Irish, prosecutions, Mr John Roche, National M.P. for Galway. insinuated that Lord Ashtovvn was implicated in an attempt to manufacture a bogus outrage at Woodlawn for political purposes. Messrs R. R. Cherry (AttorneyGeneral for Ireland) and .A. J. Balfour declared that there was not the slightest foundation lor the abominable accusation. The debate also dealt with the paralysis of the jury system in ordinary law. Mr A. Birrell (Secretary for Ireland), admitted the deplorable failure of the prosecutions in connection with cattle-driving. He added that civil proceedings alone would avail. Criminal proceedings were unlikely to be of use. Mr Balfour insisted that the prosecutions were a sham from beginning to end, adding that force was the only remedy against crime.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9054, 13 February 1908, Page 5
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153BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9054, 13 February 1908, Page 5
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