IRISH AFFAIRS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5300, 22 September 1885, Page 2

IRI SH AFFAIRS.

The Earl of Doon made an offer of ten per cent reduction in the rents of his Limerick tenants. It was accepted. Aftsr a stormy meeting, a riot occurred at Londonderry on August 20. Forty soldiers beat a crowd of civilians, whereupon the latter turned upon the soldiers and a picket guard had to be called out. The guard were obliged to carry fixed bayonets for self defence. Order was with difficulty restored. The Ursuline convent at Ballyfrackle, County Waterford, was burned on August 25th. All the inmates escaped. The Nationalists of Cork and Waterford assembled at Knockamore on August 25 and interred a document representing crime as one result of Lord- Carnarvon's peaceful progress through Ireland. There has been an enormous influx of tourists into that country. 1500 from England, Scotland, and Wales landed at Dublin on August 24th. . ' Davitt has said in a letter, August 25th, that substantially while supporting the Parnellites he will maintain his agitation of the question of the proprietorship of land. "-?■• A magistrate and ten police went to a place near Ballyriggit, County Killarney, on the 27th August to evict tenants. When they arrived the chapel bell tolled, and 2000 persons assembled and attacked the officers, preventing them fr m accomplishing the proposed eviction. The police were compelled to charge the mob with bayonets. A fierce encounter ensued, and many on both sides were stoned and stabbed. Agrarian outrages are increasing in County Kerry Every day cases.of incendiarism and hamstringing cattle are reported. John Pollock, magistrate, and owner See fourth page. : •|;S ? ;^

oi large landed estates, publicly thrashed Captain Barry, Royal Horse , Artillery, : and John Albert Blackenby, v 'Deputy^Lieutenant of the County Galoway, in the screets of Dublin, ou August 27th, for interfering in his domestic matters; Mrs Pollock recently left her husband's house. Pollock, after thrashing his men, offered to "go out" with" them:-'' He is about to institute proceedings : for a divorce] • -j