A GENEROUS LANDLORD.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4383, 20 January 1883, Page 4

A GENEROUS LANDLORD.

If all the landlords were like the young Earl of Dalhousie there would be but little support to a demand for legislative iuterference between landlord and tenant, al though as the best of landlords are mortal, legal security for tenants' improvements ia the only real security. Not only has the Earl had framed for his tenants one of the most liberal leases ever published ; he has also had bis farms re-valued, he has helped his tenants to tide over the depression, and he has spent large sums of money in improving his estates. Since he came into possession, be says, he has received nothing from his estates, and he even had to borrow money in order to carry out necessary improvements. His estates are heavily burdened, and he intends to sell some of his land in order to getrid of hi« financial embarrassment, but he is so considerate towards his tenants that he will not hand any of them over to another landlord till he has seen that they are placed on a proper footing and proper* ly secured. It is a pleasure to bear testimony to the generosity and thoughtfulness of such a landlord—one who believes iv and acts upon the maxim that property has its duties aa well as its rights;