AN IRISH EVICTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3037, 25 October 1888, Page 3

AN IRISH EVICTION.

. There has tigairi been.some.oxcit'hig work at the, evictions on tbo Claurioarde estate, A correspondent ■•; at Woodford 'sends tho following accountof a'striigglo which took place iit tho house of a"'Dr" ; Tully'on September-1. : Tho,bailiffs; brought .with;them.tho iatterag-ram and a lmnibev.pf slicda, iiniler which tho Emergoiioy men worketl, whilo scaling ladders wore carried on carts. ;Earthwpt'ks had ; been%pwn':upin ;'£cont of thobouea a [fine •Bubstautiol ♦Wdißg.-'-ThojamvvaslJrough'S fori

ward, and the bailiffs'-wdrkod hard to I make a breach in the "embankment I which flanked one ond of the,dwelling; Tlio! besiegers %er6 /received with a shower of stones, and tho defenders of tho house cheered again and again, When Ihe laddors were brought forward against, the walls long sticks with forks on tho ond of them wore thrust out, and tho ladders wero pushed away. Tho people gathered in the fields ohcered as the laddors fell. Meanwhile juon-wero •vigor,ously:working under tho shelter the stones continuing to fall' in showers from tho roof. At length it was found that the efforts-to mako' an onkanco by tlio aid of tho batter-ing-ram wore futile' Tho police then clambered up the laddors and got oh to tho roof; and tho garrison' at once

directed their efforts to displace thorn. Htonos wero thrown in great numbors. The cavalry 'responded by thrusting with fixed bayonets through the windows at the men outside. The struggle was waged for." a considerable -time. Long polos were pushed out-for tho purpose of upsetting the laddors. These poles were seized by the police, and a prolonged "tug of war" followed, At the gablo ond it ninnbor of constables offectcd a landing upon the roof, A hole was broken through by those insidoj and upon tho appearanco of the defenders the police fell, 's'omo headlong, - some rolling over the slates, to tho ground. Cheers again, broke from the people at this. From... one window-a long pieco of iron was pushed fortlhand placed against the ladder.' A policeman grasped'it to pull it from thedefenders, but speedily' let it go, as,' in anticipation of this attempt, it had booivheatod, At the building ran a sloping-roofed outhouse, and iipou,this District-Inspec-tor Murphy made his way, and got in through a' window immediately above it, the garrison being occupied at tho othorend of thehouse. Through this window there followed a number of police, all-with fixed bayonets, and thou Distriot-InspectorPowor drew his sword and' flung away his scabbard. Great efforts were still being miulo to dislodge tbe police from th<3 ladder from which the attack outside was being directed. The officers slashed away with their swords and the men continued to makevongeml thrusts through tbe,opening;' but the battle was all but gver,as through the window at the end of tho polico continued to enter, When the house had been taken thirteen mon were arrested and handouffed in it, Some of them had recoived bayonet stabs in the face, and one man had a very ugly ugly wound under his left eye. When" Dr" Tully appeared at tho roof it was seen that be bad boen injured badly, and he bad to bo carried down the ladder by tho police, as ho was unable to stand.

Mrs Siller, tho JLyor of Argnuis Kansas, the first who has filled suoh a p«»t, has shut all the drinking saloons in the place.—Joy Bolls.