NEIGHBOURLY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 23, 28 January 1922, Page 7

NEIGHBOURLY.

* » BUT STILL RUN OWN HOUSE. ULSTER CLINGS TO RIGHTS. (By Cable.—Tress Association.— Oopj-ris'ht.) (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 27. Sir James Craig, Premier of Ulster, speaking et a luncheon given by the | Unionists' Council, defended the agreement he had entered into with Mr. M. Collins, the head of t.he South Ireland Parliament, concerning the lifting , of the boycott against goods from Ulster. Sir James said the agreement was nol a surrender of any of Ulster's rights. Ulster would continue to have her own Parliament, hut she desired to live at peace with the Free State. Sir James was re-elected chairman of the Council. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) STUCK TIP THE BANK. (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, January 27Armed burglars visited the branch of tho Ulster Bank at Devlin, Westmcatli. They compelled the manager at the revolver's point to accompany them in a motor to the residence of the cashier, where' the keys of the safe were kept, and then returned to the bank, stole £600, and disappeared.— (Reuter.) SHAH'S CONGRATULATIONS. (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, January 27. Persia is the first foreign country to recognise the Irish Free State. The Persian Consul ceremonially presented a message of congratulation on behalf of the Shah and Government. Messrs. Grjftitli and Collins replied.—(Reuter.) LORD CARSON'S ADVICE. LONDON, January 27. A letter from Lord Carson, read at the Ulster Unionist Council meeting, declared: "The great aim of Northern Ireland should be to consolidate the new Government, in orderjthat it may settle down to the consideration of thefatetul future of the people entrusted to it? charge and bring about a pence they have so long prayed for, and a steady development founded in security and confidence. This is only to be secured by sinking sectional interests for the common welReuter.) A SHINDY OR TWO LEFT. LONDON, January £7. Following a Labour dispute, Major Hallinan, the proprietor of llourmills in Mallow, County Cork, was kidnapped while motoring. A fortnight later Sinn Fein police found and released him. Meanwhile a number of armed men, as a reprisal, kidnapped the secretary of the local Transport Workers' Union, when he was addressing a meeting of strikers. Feeling is running high, and the workers have now taken possession of the flour-mills, and have hoisted the red flag. Men hiflden behind a roadside hedge fired on Mr. Buggy, sub-sheriff of Clonrael. who was motoring with a party of police and bailiffs. A police sergeant was wounded. Later Mr. Ruggy was kidnapped, but was subsequently released.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) NEW ZEALAND ADVICE. PARIS, January 27. A New Zealand delegate at the PanIrish Congress described as claptrap the suKfjestion that Ireland should boycott British goods. He adde t ] that it would pay Irishmen to remember that commerce knew no nationality. Irish trade must aim at the best markets wherever they were to be found. For a long time Ireland must be dependent on British shipping. • Ireland was still in the "spade and potato -, stage, and her development and welfare depended on getting out of it as soon as possible. Her waterpower was sufficient to support a population of 10,000,000, and must be pressed into service, as was being done in New Zealand.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) STRIKE SETTLED. LONDON, January 27. Tlie'strike, on the Dublin and SouthEastern Railway has been settled.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.')