HUSH MATTERS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1778, 19 December 1885, Page 8

HUSH MATTERS.

Owhrg to recent civilian attacks, a large party of the King's Royal Rifles broke out of Limerick Barracks on the night of November 10, and made an indiscriminate attack upon the people residing in the vicinity. Several were badly stabbed. The disturbance was with difficulty quelled, and the soldiers conveyed back to their barracks by the police. While a man named Michael Nargent was proceeding to Ballymagh on the lOfch, to record his vote adverse to the Nationalist party, he was dragged from a car and beaten nearly to death. Roger O'Brien, a prominent Leaguer, was shot at Athlone the same day, on account of agrarian trouble. Dean O'Loughlin foil dead on November 9 while at mass. The Earl of Carnarvon declined to interfere with the conviction of 11 men charged with conspiracy to murder an obnoxious landlord. Fivo of the convicted parties were given seven years' and the rest six and 12 months' imprisonment. A London cablegram of November 8 says that a movement of great importance is being quietly organised among various societies of Irishmen. It is proposed to form a vast federation, pomprising representatives of all organised labour in Ireland, for the sole purpose of keeping out of the country all goods of British manufacture with the exception of such as Ireland is unable to produce. The movement is warmly approved by Michael Davitt, and a deputation waited on Mr Parnell, to secure his approval and that of the Irish National League. Great excitement was caused at Killarney on the Bth by the auction of a number of cattle that had been seized for non-payment of rent. Representatives of the National League bought the animals in for £60. Father O'Connor made a speech in which lie encouraged the peasants, of whom about 2000 were present, bnt advised them against a breach of the peace. The nomination of Sir Thos. Esmond as M.P. was ratified at Dublin on November 8. He pledged himself unflinchingly for Mr Parnell. Vicount Hawarden has been appointed Lieutenant of County Tipperary in the place of Viscount Lismore resigned. A large crowd of factory girls mobbed Oharlos Edward Lewis, a Conservative member of Parliament, at Londonderry on the 12th. They treated him in a most shameful manner. Three hundred tenant farmers of Youghal, County Cork, have demanded 20 per cent, reduction in their rents. The landlords' offer of 15 per cent, reduction was rejected by the tenants, who deposited the rent money they proposed to pay in the banks at Carrick. On November 14 a mob of 2000 persons, armed with pitchforks and scythes, expelled the police, who were trying to serve writs of ejectment.