Widnes Examiner. — 1881-07-30 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

IRELAND.  Mr. J. R. Justice, a magistrate, was on Tuesday fined £4 at Rivet:nom dessions for having assaulted a labourer. The labourem' strike in County Cork is already drawing to a close. Phough gangs of labourers still parade some of the country districts, demanding higher wages, this is to be attributed to the fact of their having been late in the field. Those who originated the agitation have resumed work the farmers on the advice of the Land League, having granted their demand. A large body of military and police proceeded from New Ross on Tuesday to aid the sheriff in evicting a woman named Holden from her farm at Shanbough, County Kilkenny. The house was found to be barricaded, and when the door was at last forced great resistance was made by those inside with pitchforks, arc. The people at last surrendered and were arrested, information being sworn on the spot. The five men who were in custody at Tmlee, charged with shooting a bailiff near Castle Island, were finally discharged on Saturday, for want of evidence. Two of the witnesses were ordered to be prosecuted for committing perjury. At Bellyfamon, near Carrick-on-Shannon, on Saturday, 48 persons were charged with riot at Readne. where 800 persons assembled to cut the turf of Patrick Lynch, a local suspect, and afterwards made a threatening demonstration. They were bound over to keep the peace. At the weekly meeting of the Loughrea Guardians, on Saturday, Major Rogers refusing to receive applications from the families of persons arrested under the Coercion Act, 25 guardians left the board-room, and protested against this course. Some of the farmers in county Cork have agreed to give their labourers an advance of wages. It is stated that the labourers in the Greenagh district, who are to have an increase of is. per week, have hitherto been paid only 3s. per week, with a "house" free. Five families who were evicted from Colonel Hare's estate at Doon, county Limerick, last week, have remained ever since sitting by the roadside, where they cook their meals during the day, sleeping in neighbouring farmers' houses during the night. They threaten to continue this until re-instated. Two hundred men from the North of Ireland arrived on Monday, at Waterford, and proceeded by steamer te New Noss, escorted by a large body of police, to cut the hay on the estate of Mr. Boyd, who has been "Boycotted" since the committal of two men named Phelan for the murder of his son and an attempt to murder himself. Mr. Boyton, the " suspect " who claimed American citizenship, has been pronounced by his medical attendant to be in a dangerous state of health, and a report will be at once made to the authorities by the medical officer of Kilmainham Gaol. Mr. Boyton, along with some other prisoners, has refused to sign a document stating—" I hereby undertake, if released, not to commit any treasonable practice, or commit any act of violence or any intimidation against any of Her Majesty's subjects, or in any manner, directly or indirectly, to incite others to the commission of any such act, and I shall be liable to be re-arrested if I fail to comply with this undertaking." A large number of agents of the Property Defence Association arrived in Cork, on Wednesday, to take charge of the vacant farms. Mr. John O'Connor, secretary of the Cork Land League, who was arrested under the Coercion Act, was removed by a strong military and police escort from Naas Gaol to Kilmainham, on Wednesday morning.