AN ARREST ORDERED.

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AN ARREST ORDERED.

MR. GINNELVS CAREER.

LAND JUDGES COURT INTERVENES. THE LAW NO PROTECTOR. IY TEJ/EOHAPIT—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGnT. (Rec. Dec. 22, 4.40 p.m.) London, December 21. Tho Land Judgos Court at Dublin has ordered that Mr. L. Ginnel] (Nationalist member of tho House of Commons for North Wostmeath, and a leading advocate of cattle-driving), who did not appear before tho Court, bo arrested and imprisoned for six months for contempt of Court in connection with a speech made by Mr. Ginnell at Kisskyro. Mr. Justice Ross (who has been a Judge of the High Court in Ireland since 1896, and who was formo'rly a Conservative M.P. for Londonderry) decided that tho speech was a crime. Ho wished it to bo clearly understood that the prosecution had not been undertaken at tho instance of tho Irish Government. Tho cattle-driving movement had, said Mr. Justice Ross, demoralised tho people to an extent unequalled within liis memory. "Wrong-doers laughed at tho authorities' futile efforts to prevent it, and. the King's subjects no, longer had confidence in the efficiency oßjthn law in the protection of property and liberty. In the present case, His Lordship added, defendant dared to turn tho swollen tide of lawlessness and violence upon an estate that was under tho Court's immediate v protection. '.'.•■•

MR. ASQUITH ON CATTLE-DRIVING. London, December 20. The Chancellor of tho Exchequer, tho Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, speaking at Aberdeen, said cattle-driving was roprehensivo and peculiarly unpatriotic, tending as it did to cripplo ono of Ireland's most important industries. It must, and would, bo put down.