CABLE NEWS.
o SUGGESTION BY LORD BRASSEY. CONCILIATORY ATTITUDE OF MR. W. O'BRIEN. [press association.] LONDON, 13th November. In the course of a speech at Hastings, Lord Brassey said thab Ireland was too important to continue the battlefield of Parliamentary parties. He urged the joint consideration of a scheme for creating a peasant proprietary, the result to be then to Parliament on their joint responsibility. Since the collapse of no-rent agitation on Lord De Freyne's estate, Mr. William O'Brien's attitude is more conciliatory. He has promised the Cork Nationalists that he will treat the Land Bill of Mr. Wyndham, Chief Secretary for Ireland, reasonably and will show magnanimity and generosity to the landlords, whom he has no desire to beggar. AN ACTION FOR CONSPIRACY. HEAVY DAMAGES AWARDED. LONDON, 13th November. A shopkeeper at Yallow, County Wexford, sued ten local leaders of the Irish League for £20,000 for conspiracy to boycott and ruin his business because he took an evicted person's farm. The jury awarded plaintiff £5000 -damages. Four juries had previously failed to agree when the case was heard at Dublin and Waterford.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19021114.2.27
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 118, 14 November 1902, Page 5
Word Count
183CABLE NEWS. Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 118, 14 November 1902, Page 5
Using This Item
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.