AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12016, 17 August 1907, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

London, August 15. Lord Ashtown had a narrow escape from assassination afc 2 o'clocu yesterday morning. He belietes that the plot was planned not loeallly but in the West of Ireland, where he was under police protection. He was asleep: over the drawing-room at Glenahry Lodge, his shooting seat ; in County Waterford, and the only other" occupants of the Lodge were the gamekeeper and the letter's wife and two maids. The explosion was heard a mile away. It wrecked the drawing-room, hurled doors and furniturejacross the hall, shattered the bedroom window shutters, and wrenched the marble mantlepiece in the bedroom from the wall. The curtains and carpet in the drawingroom broke into flamed, which were quickly extinguished. . The miscreants had placed a charge of powder in the drawing-room window-sill, and fragments of a metal pot in a specially-made iron frame, intended to increase the force of tne explosion, were found with three fußoaeach. Burnt aacks saturated with paraffin were hurled after the explosion into the drawing-room. A ladder, too short to reach Lord I Ashtown 'a window, was found below, shattered. . , i No clue to the perpetrators of the outrage has been discovered. Lord Ashtown is the leading spirit of the Irish Unionist Alliance, which publishes a monthly list of political outrages and extracts from agitators' speeches. The Belfast flax-spinners have been given a fortnight's notice of di«charge. Many workers are idle owing to the disorganisation in consequence of the strike.