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THURSDAY, AUGUST

GENERAL NEWS.

MR. SIDNEY WERE

At a conference of the Seaham Division Labour Party at Murton

U.S. REPUBLICANS.

MR. HARDINO'S ACCEPT. ANCE SPEECH.

Mr. Edgar Rowan writes in the Colliery, County Durham re A pledge of constitutional gov- Daily Chronicle-If your ideas cantly Mr. Sidney Webb wasjeroment, administered by party and experiences of a revolution selected to fight the seat at the and not by individual and aned are confined to Carlyle's history |naxt election.

of the French upheaval and

| Diokoos's “Tale of Two Cities,”

CITY'S MEMORIAL TO THE FALLEN.

an national rather than world ideals, was given by Senator Harding in formally accepting the Republican nomination for

you are likely to form a wrong impression of the Dail Eireann In order to clear the site for the Presidency. Courts which have now been set the memorial to London troops] He welcomed a popular refer upover the greater part of Ire-in front of the Royal Exchange, endum on the League of Nations, land. For the president and his the drinking fountain is to be advocated increased production colleagues do not wear red caps moved to the back of the Ex-to cut the high cost of living, or handla big knives and pistols change, where it will take the pleaded for obliteration of sec- persussively on the bench and place of the Rowland Hill statue, tional and class conflict and de- there are no pikes or tarches or which, in turn, will be re-erected clared for industrial peace, "pol shadows of the guillotine in the in front of the Ganeral Post forced, but inspired by the picture.

Ofre, St. Martin's-le-Grand.

I was in one of these Courts the other day. There was nothing i secret about it. Its proceedings

NO ORAMOPHONES FOR WORKHOUSE

common weal,"

Prohibition he gave only a passing notice, saying that de spite divided opinion regarding

are duly reported in the Press, By 20 votes to 18 Romford the Eighteenth Amendment and and the general public are free to Board of Guardians have rejected the statutes enacted to make it wander in idly as spectators, as a proposal to purchase six gra-operative, there must be no if it were the most orthodoxophones for the entertainment of evasion in their enforcement. He Court ever held under the lion the inmates of the workhonse, in declared it to be his sincere and unicorn. It was, indeed, so firmary, and the children of the desire that ratification of orthodox that I could not summon scattered homes. Mr. Valentine, the suffrage amendment be up a thrill, even by reminding who made the proposal, is the completed to permit women myself that it was all revolution member of the board who in-vote this fall in every Štate. ary and therefore wrong. There troduced cards and other games Reviewing and commending even crept in a sense of boredom, into the house. so smoothly did everything run.

ASSIZES IGNORED.

to

1930.

LANE,

NOTICES

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Rugs and Floor Coverings

High Grade Mattresses Stoves and Ranges Draperies, Etc.

briefly many other planks of the SHIP COOKING UTENSILS

£1,400,000 IN PROFIT-SHARING party platfrom, the candidate

BONDJES.

declared for collective bargaining |

t

We were ic the council

An amount of nearly £1,400,000 for farmers, repression of the generom Federal chamber of a well known town in was received as bonus by fewer disloyal, the South of Ireland. On the than 50,000 employees taking cooperation" in rehabilitating Bench sa: three prominen: local part last year in 116 pradt-shat-the railroads, intelligent deflation supporters of the Sinn Fein cause. ing schemes in the United King of the currency, enlargement of whom I will call the Alder-dom. The figures are given in Government aid in reclamation, man a Sion Fein M.P.), the the Labour Gazette, and it is a genuine expression of gratitude Professor, and the Business Man. added that, of the sum of to veterans of the World War £1,400,000, nearly £1,220,000 was [and maintenance of an ample The cases were such as one might listen to any day before paid by 20 Drms with a very high navy and a small army, but the an English County Court judge rate of bogus, but with only best in the world.

13,000 participating employees or stipendiary magistrate.

between them. In the gas group Dae concerned a dispute over 50 per cent of the firms reporting the transport. from an island in paid no dividend at all the near-by esmary to the main- land. of some American hots bought by a local contractor. It had originally been set down for hearing at the assizes, but both sides had agreed to submit it this count of the "Irish Republic," and plaintiff &cd defendant alike signed a form undertaking:-

To abide by the decision of the Coart on the matters submitted

for decision.

To comply with any orders, and

One representative of each

In his promise of a party government." Senator Harding reiterated his belief that the Vice- President should have a part in the affairs of the Chief Executive's official family and said there alo should be a "cordial understand- trade union basing a branch iling and co-ordinated activities" between the Executive and Con- the ares.

gress. "No man," he said "is big The judges of a district court enough to run this great Repablis. number fire, and are elected by Our first committal is the restora- members of all the parish courts. tion of representative popular On appointment all judges or Government, under the Constitu- magistrates and all officials of tion, through the agency of the the Courts taks the Oath of Republican party." Allegiance to the Irish Republic,{

to discharge "ady obligations, and to Dail Eireann, its govern-} LEAGUE COVENANT ASSAILTD. which the Court in its decision

ment. Clergymen and women

Promising restoration of peace

might make or impose, subject are eligible for these judicial ap-as soon as a Rapublican Congress

always to the right of appeal.

Not to submit to any enemy | tribunal ” (ie., any British Court) any roalters, whereon the Court shall pronounce a decision.

SMOOTH PROCEDURE. Everything went

forward in

pointments.

APPEALS ALLOWED.

sbould send a peace declaration to a Republican President for his signature, the candidate assailed the League Covenant as brought home by President Wilson, bat declared the war sacrifices would be in rain if we cannot acclaim

to civilization and peace

The parish courts have, in civil matters, jurisdiction in minor) disputes, and in claims not er ceeding £10 in value. In criminal cases they are courts of summary businesslike style. Counsel for jurisdiction. before which all new order, with added security the plaintiff opened his case, and minor cises are brought for called witnesses, to whom the hearing. They thas attempt to oach was duly administered. They combine the functions of our own were examined, cross-examined county courts and police courts.

maintained.

"We Republicans of the Sensie," he continued. “when we

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were argued by counsel and con- there is one in every purliamen-upergovernment taking visionary 2 becoming sidered by Bench, and there was tary constituency, deal with all form, joined in nothing to remind the visitor serious offences, and decide title Warning of our devotion to this Republicans of the Senate halted that the proceedings were. from cases, &c.

the barter of independent Ameri- the British point of view, wholly The decision of a parish court can eminence and influence.... irregular and improper.

may within four days, be carried We do not mean to hold aloof. But the fact that probably, in on appeal to the district court, and to not mean to shun the opinion of the majority of my in such an appeal the decision a single responsibility of this Re- readers, this is so. does not rob of the district court is final public. We were resolved then. these courts of interest. It is Appeals from decisions of a

even as we are to-day, and will pleasant, as a journalist, to reflect district court may be carried to be to-morrow, to preserve this that if the sun rose in the West appeal judges, appointed by the free and independent Republic. to-morrow morning it would be Republicas Minister of Justice. Let those now responsible or grossly irregular, but it might be So far as I have been able to seeking responsibility. propose my duty to write a column on the learn. both parish court judges the surrender, whether with in- subject. And so to some fuller and district court judges are at terpretations, apologies or re [description of these Courts.

present onpaid. bat theluctant reservations-from which

receive no: They now operate in almost former

more our rights are to be omitted. Wo every corner of Ireland, and the than

£1 & day, and the welcome the referendum to the extent to which they have with latter not more than £2 a day, as American people on the PC drawn cases from the Aasizes is travelling expenses. shown by a typical instance in These faes, sad the genera a Senate advising as the Con- Mayo. When Mr. Jastica Pim costs of the Courts, are mat out stitution contemplates. I would opened the Assizes there the of deposits lodged by the lit hopefully approach the nations other day it was reported that of gants. In all claims and disputes of Europe and of the earth, pro- the 99 appeal cases, over 80 had over property, 10 per cent. of the posing that understanding which been withdrawn, and most of sam in dispute (if the sum beroakes us a willing participant in them had been decided at £ Dail under £50, and a smaller per- the consecration of nations to a Eireann Court the previous day. centage above that sum) must be new leadership, to commit the lodged. The successful party moral forces of the world. COMPOSITION OF COURTS.

gets his deposit back. Out of America included, to peace and These courts (I was informed the deposit. of the unsuccessful international justice, still leaving on inquiry in Sinn Fein circles) are party the expenses of the success-America free, independent and established under the authority of fol party may be paid at the selfteliant, but offering friendship the Department of Justice of Dail decision of the Court.

to all the world.* Eireann, which is the name given

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servation of America...

With

to the government of the Irish Republic. Both civil and criminal I believe that confidence in from any question of loyalty to courts are of two kinds parish these Courts is by.no means the Crown, & domestic matter for courts and district courts:

confined to Republicans. Many the Irish Bar Council At pre-

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