A Melancholy Picture.
♦ _ ' — * Mr Earnest Hart, the editor of the British Medical Journal, who has just returned from a tour of inspection m Donegal, Ireland, reports a melancholy condition of affairs. He found m Bonegal 14,000 persons subsisting upon the alms of the priests, derived from the American funds. They are working dn a pennyworth of Indian meal per day. Emigration will not aid them, as only the best will depart* while the helpless will be left behind. In Ireland there are 4,000,000 acres of land, formerly under "tillage, now returning to a state of Nature. Mr Hart proposes that the ; Government, instead of spending money upon emigration, shall spend it on lending money at one per cent, to a substantial company, which will redeem this land, and settle upon it tenantfarmers, who m a few years will 'become proprietors of their own holdings of 30 acres. -
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 232, 3 September 1883, Page 2
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147A Melancholy Picture. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 232, 3 September 1883, Page 2
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