THE IRISH LAND PURCHASE BILL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2037, 24 April 1890, Page 1

THE IRISH LAND PURCHASE BILL.

London, April §l, ; Mr Parnell asserts that the Government land purchase scheme will cost £160,000,000, and that the proposed guarantee will prove illusory. Mr Dillon, speaking at Southampton, opposed the Irish Land Purchase Bill, Mr Dillon has improved in health by his colonial f( ur, lie states that ho and his colleagues hays oollectod £30,600. Mr Pamelas motion against the Land Purchase Bill denounces it as insufficient to meat the necessities of the country. The absentees wili be enabled to obtain exorbitant priges f a\< thoiy property to the neglect of the owners, npd moreover the Bill exhaust? the only available Dish greqjl !e|t, The quea'ion of the gongegled districts is not dealt with, and under the Bill three-fourths of the tenants will not be Practically the propositions arc a swindle on the ratepayer. The motion concludes with the suggestion that the operation of the rpengure shou’d be confined to. holdings under fifty acres jn area. April 22. Mr Parnell, in speaking to his motion on the Land Purchase Bill, said that il would be unnecessary- to increase the facilities for purchase if the Government advanced the landlords £3fSOO,GOO to liquidate encumbrances, ou ’pandllicq (fiat the Judicial repts of tenants under £SO valuation were reduced 30 per cent. The speech was coldly received. Sir G. Trevelyan said that Qpposition were to accept a pqrpbsse scheme, but Mr Balfour’s Bi I yyas framed ip the interests of the l«nd. Iprtfs.