THE NATIONAL LEAGUE AT WORK.
! At the Killarney Sessions the other day Edward O'Neill applied for compensation for a mare of his, which was maliciously stabbed with some sharp instrument after it had been worked for a few days on a farm from which the tenant had been evicted ; the mare died. He (O'Neill) had since then been boycotted so that the neighbours would not speak tohim, and a mower who was working for him bad to leave his employment because the Land League branch at Biillynalis bad denounced bis (O'Neill's) conduct. After this denunciation from the League he re-ceii-ed a threatening letter, and a shot was fired into his bouse. A farmer named Michael Hunt, who in the opinion of the Knockamore branch of the League paid his landlord too high a rent for hia farm, has been boycotted , he had the ear of his horses cut off some of his sheep injured, his crops distroyed, and the wheels of his cart thrown into the sea. Patrick Uahillane, of Glenlough, co. Kerry, has had seven of his cows driven down a steep place into the sea. They were all killed. He had taken a farm from which a tenant had been evicted. A party of men are going over the Kcnmare estate warning tenants that their cattle will be shot in the fields if they do not away with or sell them immediately. On Lord Kenmate's estate, within forty-eight hours of a speech made by Mr. O'Brien, M. P., the Nationalist moonlighters raised several of the townlands and noticed several of the tenants to pay their rents into the Plan of Campaign chest. The greatest terrorism exists on the estat, and the plan is being forced on the tenant by threats and intimidation. Mr. Leonard, Lord Kenmare's agent. Parnell Commission on November 22nd, has received an anonymous letter, informing him that the poor people, who are inclined to pay him their rent, are threatened by the moonlighters to join the Plan of Campaign, and that in dread of their lives they have to pay 40 per cent, to the plan.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2578, 19 January 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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351THE NATIONAL LEAGUE AT WORK. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2578, 19 January 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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