UNREST IN IRELAND

Otago Witness, Issue 2803, 4 December 1907, Page 32

UNREST IN IRELAND

m i - CATTLE-DRIVERS CONVICTED. LONDON, November 26. Four persons charged with cattle-driving in Galway were convicted by a 1 Dublin jury. Sentence was postponed. Several hundred cattle having been driven at Cam parish, Roscommon, an inspector with 20 constabulary arrived shortly afterwards. November 30. The Times urges the prosecution of the Irish members of the House of Commons who are inciting the cattle-driving. It states that even if the prosecutions failed the Imperial Parliament -would appreciate the siguidcance of the prosecution, Mr W. H. Long, member for Dublin, appeals to the British electorates to insist upon the application of the Crimes Act. Mr Cherry (Attorney-general for Ireland), speaking at Dublin, stated that the Government by giving trials by jury in Ireland was doing the best thing possible. December 2. j Two shots were fired from a thicket near the Cranghwell Railway .Station at Mrs Ryan, the occupier of an "evicted" farm on the Clanricard Estate, At henry, but she was not injured. Mr Blake's mother, of Kilconierin, is still confined to her bed, and is in a critical condition. In China it is not possible for a father to leave more property to one son than another; all must chare equally