MR PARNELL’S PLAN.
An advice from London, dated tlio 10th says Mr Parnell proposed his scheme to Parliament,. whereby the Government would immediately introduce an ad interim measure to suspend during the next two years all process for the recovery of rents in the case of holdings of; £lO, the amount of rental according to poor law valuation, and all ejectments. The btate would also organise a petition to parcel out and let lands in small holdings, and sell it to the peasantry, compensating the original owners at the purchase price of twenty years of poor laws valuation, which is considerably below the value of annual rental. It is stated that the Government, Bill dealing with the Irish land question will authorise the Government to appoint a Commission empowered to purchase large,estates, and retail them to the peasantry in small lots, funds to be provided by the State. The peasant propviotois to pay interest at the rate of 3£ per cent.
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Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 542, 6 July 1880, Page 3
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