Distress m Ireland.
In reference to the distress m Ireland about which questions have been asked m Parliament, it appears .4r.om the letter of the special correspondent of the Irish Times that m the county of. Clare great" distress , is, threatened, owing to the failure of the potato crop and an epidemic among , pigs, and dear^rioesj Itie taxes levied on the farmers by the Grimes Act are a very lieary burden. Public works are recommended. The country, it .is stated, presents a most melancholy and nninTiting r a^peara > m!e. Fields and Meadows' are' deluged with water, and men, '.^ojmen^'cliildren/pigs, calves , cows, dogs) and chicken aria all herded together in ' miserable dwellings.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 60, 3 February 1883, Page 3
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111Distress in Ireland. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 60, 3 February 1883, Page 3
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