But there are two or three matters which it must at once put in hand.

There is, for instance, the drainage of the Barrow and the Bann.

These two rivers are in a remarkable degree non-political and non-sectarian.

Just as the rain falls on the just and the unjust, so do their rain-swollen floods spoil with serene impartiality Nationalist hay and Orange hay, Catholic oats and Presbyterian oats.

Will "Ulster" fight against an effort to check the mischief?
Then there is re-afforestation.