IRELAND

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13312, 14 June 1907, Page 5

IRELAND

nationalist; manifesto. Press Assoeiation-By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, June 12. The manifesto added that if the Irish were in earnest, -whatever Government was hi power would soon find itself coerced into introducing a Bill very different from that rejected. The Government's Evicted Tenants' Bill provides for the reinstatement of 2000 tenants, or one-fourth of the total applicants. FAILURE OF A PROSECUTION. A GRAVE SITUATION._ Received 11.13 p.m., June lath. LONDON", June 13. The agitators in Ireland in propagating Lord Denman's remark that cattle-driving is not a serious crime, caused the failure of one> prosecution. I>lr Birrell was greatly heckled in the House of Commons. He fdeclared that the Government- expected owners to protect their own cattle, and that the action of the police was merely an adjunct to nvh protection. He declined to say what the owners' steps should be. The police had no evidence that the l surrender of farms was due to the pressure of the Irish League. The "Times" kits that the Nationalists' successfully appealing to the agrarian passions of 'the-jieasants over a growing area in Connawffht and Munster, and urging them to defy the law, will forec the Government to chocs-* between coercion and anarchy.