IRISH AFFAIRS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 254, 23 September 1884, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS.

Lord Ross more, wrote to the papeis on August 13, coin plaining. oi the increasing confidence : placed in the Nationalists. He asserted their recent assaul is upon peaceable neople were the result of Govern raonv sup* port. Twenty thousand persons took part in a Nationalists procession in Mon* aghan on the 15th August. In the evening a banqiivt '""was given, at which several notables were entertained. The Orangemen abstained from any counter demonstration. Despatches, dated 23rd, say Ireland if reaping a rich harvest from tourists who have been frightened from the Continent by tho cholera scare ; also that the crops are said to be superb, and that more noblemen and other rich landlords are spending au'umn on their Irish estates than during many years past. This materially improves business of all kinds. Thomas Sexton, M.P., a Parnell representative, was present ? ht the lush Land League convention held in Boston on August 13. The meeting was large and enthusiastic. Sexton, on being interviewed, said : — "My only purpose in this visit to America is to observe the iormation and system to the league, and to discuss methods for the fostering of harmony, fer on harmony alone de|>endi the successful carrying' out of the intentions of the league. I do not deem it wise in a year like this, when the country is absorbed in a pi e>idential contest, to endeavour to g*iu attention for another stibject. Affairs remain about the same on the other side. The land laws are badly administered. Government- appointed land commissioners are in sympathy with the landlord class, and they broke the back of ttye Healy Act. That a tenant should be compelled to pay rent on his own improvements is a shameful thing, and the league's first effort is toward "the abolishment of tha'j .system. When we accomplish that end- the adjudication^pf^rents will be taken up. No doubt * that question will require long consideration." .u :i;.-:.; j*^