UNHAPPY IRELAND.
A former resident of New Zealand, new settled in Ireland, writes t© a"Christchurch friend as follows: —"This country is in a® awful state. Ram has been ceaseless all the summer. The half-made bay has rotted in the fields; the oats, still green, are laid fresh by the .storms; I never saw the disease so bad in the potatoes. The foot-and-mouth disease has now come within six miles of me; the district is proclaimed so that I cannot move a beast or a shee-p across a high road; fairs are stopped, and the ports are closed so that no cattle can be sent to England. But these troubles are light compared with the political cloud that i$ hanging over our heads. If Home Rule comes about, civil war is inevitable. ,1 do not now enter into the question of whether Ulster ts right or wrong; I merely.state what will happen-—and what would happen whether Bonar Law and "Carson had spaken out or not."- '
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10715, 19 October 1912, Page 4
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164UNHAPPY IRELAND. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10715, 19 October 1912, Page 4
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