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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6135, 29 April 1891, Page 2

It is a sign of better times for Ireland when a man of tho stamp of Michael Davitt finds no work to his hands for the "salvation" cf his country. Davitt wn3 born in County Mayo, but his parents after eviction settled in Lancashire, and he became a factory band. Losing his right arm by an accident at the mill, he found employment in a stationer's shop. He was quite young when he joined the Fenians, and was present at the attack on Chester Castle. He then engaged himself in buying and transporting arms to Ireland, and for this he was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude. He was released when half the sentence had expired, and took himself off to America. It was while there he picked up the idea of tho Land League, and returning to Ireland, he converted Mr Parnell to his views. After another visit to America he was arrested on his return, and served fifteen months' imprisonment. He has been a prominent agitator all his life, and in October, 1890, ht, became editor of the Labor World. He is now about to resign that position, and settle in California. And " a good riddance, too," is all that need be said.