IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14386, 31 May 1907, Page 7

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

MR CHAMBERLAIN'S HEALTH. REPORTED DISORDER IN IRELAND. United Pre*s Association—By Electrio Telograph—Copyright. LONDON, May 30. Mr Chamberlain, in a cheerful letter to Viscount Tumour, gave an excellent account of his health. He sa*id he hoped that ho would be back in Parliament at the beginning of next session. Mr Birrell, speaking in tho House of Commons, admitted that Judge Ross had stated that widespread and audacious conspiracy was rampant in the West of Ireland. Mr Birrell said that cattle had been driven off. farms in a number of individual cases, but the Government had no evidence of a widespread conspiracy, "though it was the cause a considerable anxiety in certain limited areas. (Received May 31, 1.8 a.m.)

In opening tho King's County quarter sessions," Judge Curron said that, although it had never been officially reported peaceable, the county had never been in a worse state of disruption than now.