IRISH AFFAIRS

Otago Witness, Issue 2510, 23 April 1902, Page 15

IRISH AFFAIRS

BOYCOTTING TO BE PUT DOWN. LONDON, April 10. The Irish League m West Clare have ordered the boycotting of the police, as they are considered to be an army of occupation. April 17 Nino counties in Ireland and the Boroughs of Cork and Waterford, where the Irisn League is active, have been proclaimed under the Crimes Act. Lewis Handley, a farmer from Natal, has arrived in London to give evidence that Arthur Lynch commanded a body ■of Boers who confiscated his cattle and destroyed 100 a^re- of his crop. This would, if proved, be deemed an act of treason. In the House of Commons Mr Redmond protested against the reapplication of the Crimes Act in Ireland. Mr Wyncinam replied that the Executive were determined to grapple with boycotting, which was persistently increasing, and filling the people with brooding apprehension. April 18 The Unionist, prai-c» Mr Wyndham for not proclaiming the In-h Land League ns a league, le"-t by so doing he should advertise it. Mr Ttedmoiul and Mr Dillon have cabled a frc-h appeal for fund- to America to carry on the league's campa is n. April 19. Mr MHun;h, member of the House of Commons for Leitnm North, was fined £50 by the Land Court in Dubby for insertiiur. in a ueWiijaDer (the Biizo

j Champion) a resolution adopted by the United Irish League demanding the surrender by a tenant of a farm taken despite the warnings of the league.