AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 8395, 2 February 1888, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

fEr MLMOTJUO TMLMBBATa>- COPTSI3BT.I [Sfboial so Pmiss Association.] fS«oeiT®d Feb. 2, at 1.46 un.l DUBLIN, Fib. 1. Mr Alex. Koine, M.P. for South Armagh, has been convicted on the charge .of speaking in support of the plan of campaign at’ Gweedore, County Donegal, and a sentence of four morftbß was imposed. The decision has been appealed against. [Beeedved Feb. 2, at 2 ajn.l DUBLIN. Jam. 31. Mr Henry J. Gill, M.P. for limerick, ha* resigned his seat in the House of Commons. Eleven Irishmen have been imprisoned for terms varying from one to three months for participating in unlawful assemblies. Another outrage has occurred at Tralee. A farmer, who had been boycotted and was under police protection, has been found brutally murdered. OPENING OF THE LONDON WOOL SALES . A FIVE PBB CENT ADVANCE. [ST SLtCTRIC TELEQBA.PB COPTBIGST.I [ft petit at. to Pbbss Association.] IKeoeifed Feb. 1, at 9 p.m.] LONDON. Jab. 31. The first of the year’s wool sales opened to-day, and there was a large attendance of Home and foreign buyers, the latter being specially Continental. Six thousand five hundred bales were catalogued, half o£ which were received from New South Wales and Queensland. Bidding was extremely keen and the tone strong, prices being fully equal to the best November rates. Cross-breds are firm at a 5 per cent advance, and thb market is very promising. The arrivals are 383,000 bales.