MR PARNELL AND HIS TENANTRY.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 54, 14 June 1884, Page 7

MR PARNELL AND HIS TENANTRY.

It is very sad the president of tlie defuiict Lain! League aud apostle of Griffith's Valvation should be obliged 10 proceed against an Irish widow, in a Dublin court of hnv, to recover payment For three years' arrears on account of a farm in Wicklow, aim still more sad to find that the lease, date I 1880 — the yeai of the ill-fated Compensation for Di. 1?turoance Bill, fought for tooth an I unil by, the member foi Cork — should contnin a covenant to tiie eflvcl tliat tne tr.uaut mubfc not attempt to beck for coinpcii&tt-

tion for permanent improvements. Tue farm which was tiie subject of litigation is at preseut held by one Dulton, to whom itrwas assigned, with Mr Purnell's consent, by a Mr West, 3ince deceased. As Dalton, taking the a 1 vice of the agitators, held the rent, Mr Parnell brougnt liis acl ion against West's widow and executrix, whom he made accountable for payment, and, wuat is more, Won his causc\ Mr Parnell told the court that by renewing the lease he ha<l presented the lute Mr West with an equivalent of the sum ot £1000. The defendant's counsel, on the other hand, contended that the allowance was only equal to £300, whereas "West's permanent improvements were of the value of £1000. It would only have been fair hat! Mr Parnell, during the progress t li ough Paili'iment of the iate remedial legislation, said to his brother Irish landlords, in the proverbial words of the self-indulgent parson, " Do as I say, not as I do." Mr Parnell is like the poet, but with a difference — he has learned in suffering wlut lie did not teacli in song. — European Mail.