HOUSE OF LORDS CRITICISED. LONDON, January 29.
Mr Birrell, in a speech at North Bristol, emphasised his difficulties in the face of a population bent on getting Home Rule. The whole trouble in Ireland aiose over the land, and but for the land Ireland would be the most crimeless country in the world. Yet the House of Lords, who were parties to the dispute, had mutilated the Government's Land Bills, and had thereby increased the discontent, and juries declined to convict.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 19
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