AN ENGLISH EVICTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2208, 2 September 1886, Page 3

AN ENGLISH EVICTION.

A pitiful story of an English eviction comes to us from Dartford on Saturday, and we should hesitate to believe the facts if they did not reach us thrmigh two recognised channels. For generations past th« Wallaces, of St. Mary Cray, have been tenants of the Hart-Dyke family.- The present representative of the Wallaces is Valentin? Wallace, and his pre>ent landlord is Sir William Hart-Dyke. When Wallace's father died there were some arrears of rent owing, the liability for which was transferred to the sons shoulders. To make a long story short, owing to continued agricultural depression Wallace owed €33 on Lady Day last, and this sum was increased by £12 for not attending a meeting of the estate agent s. Finally the tenant was dragged into legal proceedings, and the total claim was increased to between £70 and £80. Had he been allowed to reap this year's harvest, Wallace might have been able to meet his liabilities; but Sir William Hart-Dyke refused to wait this. Consequently Wailace'a effect* were "brought to the hammer," and the tenant, whose family had held the old homestead for generations, is evicted with his wife and four children, and is now wandering about the country without the means of subsistence. We give the story just as it reaches us, reserving comment till an explanation has been offered.— Lloyd's Weekly.

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