A LANDLORD ON IRISH TROUBLES

Temuka Leader, Issue 1750, 14 June 1888, Page 4

A LANDLORD ON IRISH TROUBLES

Dr J.# jailer and his son, Mr T F. Waller (the latter of whom ib well known in , pastoral circles, in : New South Walei and Victoria) .recently decided upon breaking < entail of theirs Finnoe Estate in. Ireland, and selling the land to their tenants at a certain valuation., This having been done; Mr T. F. Waller .invited the tenantry -to a farewell' ; dinner ip February-last, and addressed them very seSriously upon the ! relation* ojf landlord and tenant in!; the present state of Irish affairs. He held that the trouble in Ireland had arisen from these causes—lst, misrule on the part of England, for England has never governed Ireland as a part and parcel fof.ltb'd Uhilfed Kingdom, but rather as a foreign* country-; , ~-"2ndr*"the-''--pait and present system of government is, and has been, of such a character as to encourage landlords and other wealthy memberi of society to go to. England, and there to spend their money. Induced to do so, because there never has been a royal residence in Ireland, because there has nev&r been an annual visiting of Boyalty to Ireland, and ipsojncto, there has never been,-anything of the real nature of a court in- Dublin, such as would .■atisfjr those who desired, and who were able to afford, to enjoy the pleasures and" gaities of fashionable life. This absenteeism has been the fruitful, cause, of discontent between landlords and their tenants; and the action,of the British Government has been to increase the ill-feeling because in the measures passed by [ Government, justice has never been done to either party; -For himself and his father, flir Waller said that, though the Finnoe property had been in their family for 200 years, they had resolved to leave the country, as, owing to bad legislation, there was now no justice for landlords in Ireland. The family appears to have been much respected by the tenantry, who expressed great I regret at its'! filial departure from the Old Country.