AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 660, 6 January 1881, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

, The following letter from a farmer in the County of Mayo, which has been sent ! to the Times for publication, gives a remarkable picture of the state of the country in that part of Ireland The , following details may be interesting to ■ your, readers as exemplifying the power , of the Land League. On 22nd September a process-server, escorted by a police force of seventeen men, retreated on my house for protection-,-followed by a howling mob of people, who jelled and hooted at the member's 'of -my family. On the ensuing day the people collected in crowds upon my farm, afid some hundred or so came 'up ,to my house and ordered ofiF, under threats of-ulterior consequences, all my farm laborers, , workmen, and stablemen, commanding them: never to work for me Sgain; '.My herd has been also frightened by them into giving up his em- • ployment,-though he has refused to give •dp the house he held from me as part of his emolument. • Another herd on an off farm ,has also been compelled to resign his ' situation; My blacksmith has received a letter threatening him with murder if he does. • any raq^e r "work for me, and 'my laundress has also been ordered to give up my washing. A little boy twelve years ; of age, who carried my post-bag to and . from the . neighboring town of tfallinrpbe,.was..Btruck and threatened, and ordered to desist work, since which time I have Ben* little pephew for my letters, and even he on the 2mJ October was stopped on the road and threatened if he continued to act as. my messenger. The shopkeepers have been warned to stop all supplies to my house, and! have just'received a message from the postmistress to say that that the,telegraph messenger was stopped and threatened on the road when bring, mg out a message to me, and that she does not think it safe to send any telegrams which may'come for me in future for fear thtsy should be abstracted and the messen«er injured. My farm is public property • the people wander over it with impunity.' My crops are trampled upon, carried away in quantities, and destroyed wholesale.. The locks of my ites are smashed, the gates thrown open, the walls thrown down, and the stock driven out on the roads. I can get-iio workmen to do any. thing, and my ruin is openly avowed»» •the o.bject of Land league,unless I throw • up every thing and leave the country, Tsay nothing about thedangef to my own We, which is_ apparent to apyljody that

There wore some smart things'in per--souation during the late elections in Now South Wales. In one. ciißO at Suuth Sydney n man actually personated Inspector Fosbcrry, while that gentleman was ataudiuii alongside,—beiux ignorant of the faot-ami voted;for him. A,dull old'lady,\ielni[ toldi&t.a cMr tain lawyer was lying at the point oif dentil exclaimed. "My gracious] ¥bu'{»"even ! death stop that man's lying ?" Thoy have the-greediest bnys of the period iii Northampton.' He takes everythine from tho other, children of the family. Recently he even took themeasles from his little sister.

llkhtniscekceb ns ivuLLwnnH. —In the year 18451> worthy citizen plodded his way with some difficulty through fern and ti-tree to Te Aro Flat boing in search of the surveyor's peg which had been driven in at the corner of what is now Cuba and Dixon streets, Upon this spot was erected a small house, in which a very successful drapory business was carried on by two ladies of remarkable talent and energy, who have long since retired from the scene to the land of their birth—- " Land o*.the mountain and the flood, . Laud of brown heath and shaggy wood. In the y0ar.1866 it passed into the hands of MrJamks Smith, the present proprietor, who gave to the premises the appropriate name of Te Aro Huuso, and undor whose management business has stoadily progressed with the rising fortunes of tho city, until at length it was found that a considerable enlargement was necessary, and tho rosult was, Te Aro House, as at present, one of tho most complete and Extensive Drapery Establishments in tho colony of ■NowZealand. The Jeneral Draperyoccupies a largo space, being 49 feet by 25 feet, amply sufficient for all Manchester goods, Fancy Drosses, Silks, Gloves, Hosiory, Ribbons, Laces, Ac. The Men's, Boy's, and Youths' Clothing Department measures 24 feet by 14 foot, and lias attached a comfortable fitting-room. Carpets and Household furnishings have a similar space allotted to them, The Show-room for the sale of Millinery, Mantles, Jaokctsj Costumes, &c., is a very spacious apartment, elegantly fitted up, and beautifully lighted from the roof, and measures 89 feet by 22 feet. Tho stock of goods js at all times'large and well selected, and pattorus are forwarded post free on'application.; A special feature at Te Aro House is the Order Department, and very careful attention is paid to the wants of Country Residents. Allordersare executed under the immediate supervision of the proprietor, and securely packed and forwarded to their destination.,.withi that promptness and despatch, which have always aistin guished Te Aro House, Cuba-street, Welling On.—fADVT.I -V ■