IRISH NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 816, 21 October 1887, Page 32

IRISH NEWS.

(Per Alameda, at Anckland.)

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Archbishop Walsh, in a letter published September Bth, declares that Lord Ashbourne’s land Boheme is the best and most suitable for Ireland that has yet been passed. Lonergan’s funeral at Mitchelltown was attended by 10,000 people, and was over half-a-mile long. He had been shot by the police on September 9th. ... While returning from a funeral at Mitchelltown on the evening of September 14, a mob of about 300 wrecked the houses of several obnoxious tenants in Galbally, who were compelled to flee for their lives. The police were Btoued and compelled to take refuge in the barracks at Ballypore. Mr J. T, Bruner, M.P. (Liberal), recently elected for Norwich, has given £IOOO to start a distress fund for Ireland. Mr Dillon remarked to an interviewer on the 18th that the outlook for the Irish cause was gloomy. Mr Balfour was determined apparently to bag all Nationalist leaders, and he (Mr Dillon) would not be surprised if, in a month or so, a majority of them, including himself, were found picking oakum. ■ 7 Representatives of the Cork Constitution, and Brandon, of the London Illustrated News, were roughly handled at the Nationalist meeting at Brandon, on September ISth, The Speaker had to interfere. The Dublin Gazette, of September 20, publishes a proclamation suppressing the league and qll its branches. The proclamation is signed by .Prince Ed war dSaxe-Weimar, Commander of Forces in Ireland, Baron Ashbourne, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, A. J. Balfour, Chief Secretary of Ireland, Henry Bruen, Justice of the Peace, G. G. Gibson, Attorney-General of Ireland, and Geneial Sir R. Redvers Buller. The proclamation makes it criminal to convoke, hold, or publish meetings or do anything in connection with the League. Nationalist leaders are hurriedly consulting as to what measures are to be taken. No appeal to Parliament is necessary to cover this fresh Act; it will not be possible to evade the Lord Lieutenant’s order by turning over work of the League to any other Association. The Liberal League of London proposes some course of this sort, and they have asked the Irish leaders in London to meet them and discuss a plan for substituting branches of their association in every place where a branch of the National League is suppressed. The Lord - Lieutenant’s order will defeat manoeuvres of this kind. Under it all meetings of a league in specified districts are unlawful, and any person calling together such meeting, or publishing any such notice concerning it, is liable to six months’ imprisonment.