THE "MANUFACTURE" OF OUTRAGES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3088, 20 May 1881, Page 3

THE "MANUFACTURE" OF OUTRAGES.

The Pall Mall Gazette of Saturday, January 15th, has the following, which clearly exposes the system of " manufacturing " Irish outrages carried on in such a persistent and glaring manner by the English press: —

There is an interesting discrepancy in the accounts given by two London journals of the same date (Friday) of an " outrage" perpetrated on some unoffending beasts in the island of Arran, one of the group lying at the mouth of G-alway Bay. The accounts differ so much that it will be well to reproduce them side by side : — (Times, Friday. Jan. 14, (Morning Post, Friday, 1881) Jan. 14,1S81.) "A report from the severe snowstorms. Island of Arran states " Oar Galway oorresthat on Friday last, the pondent telegraphs that day after a land meeting according , to intelligence had been held on the received from Arran island, twenty-one head Island, twenty head of of cattle, worth £320, cattle belonging to Mr. were missing, and it ia O'Flaherty, a magistrate, believed that they were were driven over a precidriven to a cliff 200 feet pice into the sea by the high and pitched into force of tbe storm. A the sea. This has been cow and a horse were done to many herds since also driven into the the commencement of the water." agitation." [This alleged outrage was telegraphed by Renter's agency throughout the world, and ascribed to the political agitation at present existing in Ireland.]