AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16091, 3 April 1923, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

THE ULSTER PARLIAMENT.

(Elec- Tel. Copyright—lJniteil Press Assn.) (Australian and N.Z Cable Association.) . , -LONDON, March .30. The,Ulster Parliament, after, a. heated ljleljatep.acccpj.ed (Sir i James >proposalfto pay>nTcmbers E2CO annually and expenses, n Many; members ...strongly opposed 9 tlio'proposal, s. describing it •as humiliating,"- ancß disgusting. r * Kiri James Craig‘ replied* thatvParliamcnt should«be cqien, to tho poor- as?well.;as»thc rich. V, LONDON, 1 -,March 31. Ulster’s first fimincial 'year. rcatil ted in a surplus of £7o,ooo,:.after' 1 contributing six/millions to tho Imperial Exchequer. Tho iiiaugnration of tho Free Stale tariff ciyised) amazing scenes on tho - Ulster bifeer. Tho fFreo State was using all kinds of vehicles to rush, provisions across tho border in order to evade the Customs. Thousands oE •’.householders had accumulatedi vast quautities’,of goods sufficient-for six,months. Hundred's of motor / cars had also lieen sent across. Tlio Free State, with a view to stopping smuggling, have placed guards on the frontier. ‘ LONDON, April 1, The first- Free State budget estimates tlio deficit to be twenty millions. The expenditure includes over 10 millions on tho anny and. elevonti millions on compensation owing to rebel operations.

REPRISALS AND ROBBERIES

(Australian and N.Z. .Gallic Association? LONDON, March 31. Fifty-three tombstones in the Belfast Protestant cemetery were defaced or smashed, apparently by a. gang armed' with sledge-hammers and crowbars. Reprisals arn threatened. ■ A . roving gang, known ns “the Third Party,” and belonging to neither side, lias appeared in Ireland 1 , robbing all classes indiscriminately. Both Free Staters and Republicans are watching the movements of these robbers. CONDITIONS IN GAOL. lAustrallan and N.Z Cable Association.) LONDON, April 2. . The Morning Post’s Dublin correspondent reports .a deplorable state of affairs in the .women’s gaol at Kilmainham, where 'women aro confined for* taking part in Republican propaganda and assisting in arson and! in armed outrages. Elementary sanitary necessities aro lacking. and there arc five or six women in single cells. Beds are taken from ali prisoners because soma tore up their bedding. The privilege of writing letters has been withdrawn. Ninety-one women since March 21 have been hunger-strik-ing.