BOYCOTTING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2373, 14 August 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

BOYCOTTING.

The London Times of the 4th of June publishes the following:—A letter received from the south of Ireland by the Eev Mr Forster, rector of St. Mary's, Belfast, who vouches for the contents, shows the cruel extremes to which boycotting is extended:—" A clergyman of the Church of Ireland in the south a couple of months ago fell under tho ban of the local National League, chiefly for interposing to .shelter .two Protestants, parishoners, He found it impossible to procure around the simplest necessaries of life, and all his supplies had to be procured from a distance of over CO miles. Near home he tried in vain; his messengers were watehod, and their steps were dogged wherever A little later this cleryman's wife fell seriously ill, of an illness which ended in her death. During her last days he could not get for love or money in the neighboring town one pound of lean beef to make beef tea, When she was at her worst, the local band, playing and followed by a multitude shouting, passed by, of deliberation on thfl road not 50 yards from the bedroom windows. After the lady's

death her husband dared not ask anyone around to supply him with a coffin or any of the funeral requisites. He had to send over 40 miles for the coffin nnd heavse and whatever else was needed, that the remains might be taken o the trail way station for burial

in a distant county. While the lady was in health and strength her generality was experienced by every distressed family within her reach."