IRELAND IS PEACEFUL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6383, 4 December 1907, Page 7

IRELAND IS PEACEFUL.

SAYS HE REDMOND CATTLE-DRIVING IS NOT A CRIME ENGLISH PRESS CONSPIRACY. By Telegraph—Prees Association—Copyright LONDON, December 2. Hr John Rodmond, chairman of the Nationals! party, speaking at Motherwell, in Lanarkshire, said Ireland was in a state of profound peace, since cattlo-driving was the only offence against the law, and that was not a crime. Mr Redmond denounced a conspiracy among the English newspapers to represent Ireland as being almost in a state of anarchy. “DRIVERS” ON TRIAL JURY DISAGREES DESPITE THE JUDGE’S DIRECTION. (Received December 4, 0.23 a.m.) LONDON, December 3. In a case tried in Dublin yesterday, in which twenty-six Galway men were charged with cattle-driving, the jury disagreed, despite Mr Justice Wright’s emphasising the ..fact that the accused had admitted that they were driving during a whole day. The Judge also drew attention to the remark made by Mr Richard Cherry, Attorney-General for Ireland, during the course of a speech in Dublin on Saturday, that the Government was giving the trial-by-jnry system in Ireland its best possible chance, and that no honest man could doubt that cat-tle-driving was a criminal offeree. p FIVE MEN SENTENCED. LONDON, December 3. Five men who were last week convicted of cattle-driving were sentenced by Mr Justice Wright to four months’ imprisonment. AN ARCHBISHOP’S WARNING. LONDON, December 3. The Archbishop of Tuam (Most Rev. Dr John Healy) has declared that cat-tle-driving is illegal and immoral as a means, of redress. If the people of tho archdiocese desisted from the offence and yielded to tho wishes of the police ho believed that the latter, in most cases, would be withdrawn from the districts to which they had been sent to protect occupiers of evicted farms.

A JUDGE ON CATTLE-DRIVING.

"ABSOLUTELIT LAWLESS.

Mr Justice Wright, charging the Oraud Jury at Ttoecommon Assizes on July 12th, said cattle-driving was a movement which, in his opinion, was absolutely lawless, and entirely subversive of the rights of property. The movement had attained a strength which Was a formidable menace to the public peace. If it was not grappled with vigorously it would land that part of the country in'a state of anarchy. As to the county itself, he added, it was in anyung but a satisfactory state. Numerous cases of cattle-raiding had occurred, and certain persons were under police protection, simply because they had the temerity to meddle with an evicted farm. A woman, who was a small shopkeeper had been threatened with the loss of her trade if she continued to supply the police with food or groceries. ... _