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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 13 July 1888, Page 25

James Eirby was hanged at eight o'clock on Monday morning, May 8, at Tralee, for the murder of the old man Patrick Quirke, at Liscahane, on the Bth of November last, Qairke having taken a farm from which his 6on-in-law had been evicted. Kirby, while being pinioned, solemnly declared that he never fired a shot from a gun or a revolver in hia life; adding, " I am innocent, and I never shot Patrick Quirke. Cournane is also innocent of the murder. " He walked firmly to the scaffold, was quite calm, ana answered the responses to the prayers for the dead distinctly. He mounted the scaffold unassisted. Death was instantaneous. Cournane is the prisoner whose sentence has been commuted to penal servitude. When the Chinaman is being kicked out of almost every country in the world it is surprising to find that there is one little corner where he would be welcome. Cuba without its slave population is in want of labour. With a country like Cuba, where the actual necessities of life are so few, nature so prolific, and the olimato so clement, the tendency among the negroes and even the white men is to work a few days in the week to obtain money to buy the requirements which the land does not produce, and to pass the rest of their time on their own or hired piece of ground, doing nothiug beyond raising a few provisions for themselves with the least possible trouble, without contributing to the general prosperity of the country. The r3ohineße,r 3ohineße, on the other hand, are more constant, more economical, and more ambitious, and though they have the reputation of not leaving their gains in the county, they make these gains from work done by them which does contribute to the general wealth ; and so the country does eventually gain. — Truth