IRELAND.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13918, 1 June 1909, Page 6

IRELAND.

IRISH AGRICULTURE

A BELATED MESSAGE

Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright Received 11 p.m., May 31st. LONDON, May 31.

Mr Roosevelt, in a letter to the British Minister at Washington, pays a generous tribute to Sir Horace Plunkett for the initiation and successful conduct of the co-operative movement in Irish agriculture, which had inspired Mr Roosevelt and his fellowworkers in the task of attacking somewhat similar problems of American rural life.

The "Times" says that, in view of the special and national character with which Mr Roosevelt on the eve of quitting office, invested his communication, perhaps ib would have been more courteous of the British Government to accord it publicity here on their own initiative, instead of permittin"" its existence to become known through the American press months after it was written. Considering the circumstances wherein Sir Horace Plunkett ceased to be vice-president of the Department, the encomium is likely to embarrass those responsible for the sacrifice to nationalist antipathies.