IRISH IMMIGRANTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 669, 31 March 1923, Page 5

IRISH IMMIGRANTS.

TOO MANY IN SCOTLAND.

LONDON, March 27. The Glasgow Presbytery has expressed strong views on the subject of Irish immigration into Scotland, and appeals to the Church to make Scotland “fit for decent Scotsmen to live iu.” It points out that 40 per cent, of the Glasgow City Corporation employees are of Irish birth or descent, and urges that no position should be given to aliens while there is a decent Scotsman able to work, The speaker declared that the Free State immigrants wore inferior socially, industrially, morally and spiritually.—A. and N.Z. cable.

MAN SHOT IN THEATRE.

ARMY OFFICER ARRESTED

LONDON, March 23

A man mimed Johnson, a mcmlrer of the Civic Defence Corps, was shot in the heart in tho Theatre Royal at Dublin. The shooting took place while a variety performance was in progress, bub created no disturbance. An officer of the National army has been arrested in connection with the affair. There was no altercation prior to the shooting.—A. and N.Z. cable.

ENVOYS IN AUSTRALIA.

PREMIER REFUSES TO DISCUSS QUESTION.

SYDNEY, March 29. Air Bruce declined to discuss the question of deporting the Irish envoys. It is unofficially stated that the Government has no power to intervene except through trial by jury for sedition. The Government has power to compel the oath of allegiance before landing, but no protest was made at the time.—Press Association.

FINANCES OF IRELAND

BIG DEFICIT EXPECTED

LONDON, March 28.

The Times’s Dublin correspondent reports that the country is disturbed over the Government’s estimates. The revenue is estimated at only 27 million pounds and is thus confronted with a deficit of at least 15 millions. The total estimates exceed the maximum cost of the government of the whole of Ireland under British rule by 10 millions. There is a strong feeling that the army costs aro too high. —Time*. »

FULL PREFERENTIAL RATES

LONDON. March 28. Air Cosgrave, speaking in Dail Firearm, announced that preference would apple between Ireland, Britain and the Dominions. , , The commissioners of revenue have satisficed themselves that the Taxation Act provides for full preferential rates, which presumably will also bo granted on imports from Ulster.—A, and N.Z. cable.