The Land Question.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1402, 28 June 1881, Page 2

The Land Question.

At the weekly meeting of the Land League in Dublin on May 10, the Chairman, the Rev. Mr. Rylett, warned the Government that unless they protected the people from eviction, or Htood out of the way and left the work to the League, there would be consequences which every right-minded lnim would deplore. He deprecated violence, and was not prepared to take the law into his own hands, but the way to go to work had been laid down by Mr. Davitt and Mr. Dillon. Mr. Kettle, Mr. Brennan, and Mr. Sexton, M.P., also spoke, Mr. Kettle saying- that as the best leadeis of the agitation had been arrested, there was no knowing how soon it would devolve upon the people themselves to brinur the struggle to a successful issue. The subscriptions to the funds during the week to £2923. Mr. Parnell has addressed a letter to Archbishop Croke on the attitude of the Irish party with regard to the Land Bill, in which he says th.it, as a protest from members representing important Irish, constituencies, a demonstration by abstention is absolutely required by the nece.ssitie? of the situation. A declaration in the desired direction on the part of the Government might any day induce him to call the party together; but meanwhile ho asks tho Archbishop and all patriotic liishmeu to trust him. In the absence of any suitable declaration by the Government hois bound to urge upon the party the maintenance of an attitude of abstention, and to tike care that the jusfc claims of the country, after its arduous struggles and its nvmy sacrifices, should not be compromised by a too easy acceptance of an imperfpot, and in some cases perhaps, a mischievous measure.