AN IRISH PAUPER LANDLORD

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1306, 17 February 1883, Page 4

AN IRISH PAUPER LANDLORD

From an account furnished by the Standard it would seem that some of the landlords in Ireland are no better off than some other people in that unfortunate country. A melancholy case, showing how & landlord has been reduced to a state of destitution owing' to his tenants not paying their rent, came jbefore Judge Ormsby in the Land Court in Dublin, The circumstances transpired on an application by Mr Croskerry for the assignees in bank-' ruptcy to carry out the sale of the estate of Mr William Goggin, in the county Limerick. Mr Goggin said he was the owner, and was in the greatest destitution, consequent on the tenants not having paid their rents, Unless he got an allowance pending the sale, he must enter the workhouse, where the Knight of Glen, who was joint owner, was chairman of the board. The vice-chairman had been formerly the applicant's land agent, and the deputy vice-chairman was one. of his tenants. Judge Ormsby asked'was there a chance of anything coming to the owner after the sale 1 Mr Hogan, who had charge of the sale, thought there might be a residue, and they would under the circumstances, be willing to advance a small sum, but already various sums had been advanced to enable this owner's family to live without getting security. M r Goggin said there was a sum of £ll3 in the receiver's hand, He had tried to get employment without success, and a grant of £lO would keep him for a long time. Mr Croskerry and Mr Hogan would consult at once to see whother an advance could be made.