INVERCARGILL.
April 5. Between 400 and 500 persons attended Mr Stout' lecture on the Irish land question, the Mayor (Mr N. Johnston) in the chair. He reviewed the causes leading to the present crisis, expressing the opinion that so far the Land League had been the means of preventing rather than of occasioning agarian outrages. Referring to the oppression that had been practised inlreland, Mr Stout remarked that, if the same had been done in Scotland, the people would have resisted to the bitter end, and would have conquered too. He hoped for better things under the wise legislation of Mr Gladstone and Mr Bright, and pointed out that to colonists the position of affairs gave a valuable lesson what to avoid in legislation. They had to guard against the growth of the landlord class, the existence of which in this colony was due to the unwisdom of the earliest legislation. The lecturer held that the remedy for the Irish unrest was Home Rule, the establishment of a kind of provincial parliament, and the reform of the laod laws.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3050, 5 April 1881, Page 3
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