THE IRISH QUESTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2774, 24 April 1890, Page 2

THE IRISH QUESTION.

PARNELLITE OPPOSITION TO LAND PURCHASE BILL. (BY KLECTRIC telegraph—copyright.) London, April 21. Mr Paun ell's motion against the Land Purchase Bill denounces it as insufficient to meet the necessities of the country ; absentees will be enabled to obtain exorbitant prices for their property, to the neglect of small owners, and moreover the Bill exhausts the only available Irish credit left. The question of congested districts is not dealt with, and under the Bill three-fourths of the tenants will not be touched. Its principal propositions are a swindle on the ratepayers. The motion concludes with .the suggestion that the operation of the measure should be confined to holdings under fifty acres iu area. Mr Parnell asserts that the purchase scheme will cost a hundred and sixty millions, and that the proposed guarantee will prove illusory. Mr Dillon, speaking at Southampton, opposed the Irish Land Purchase Bill. April 22. Mr Parnell, in speaking to his motion on the Land Purchase Bill, said it would be unnecessary to increase the facilities for purchase if the Government advanced the landlords 27 millions to liquidate encumbrances on condition that the judical rents of tenants under £50 valuation were reduced 30 per eent. The speech was coldly received. Sir G. Trevelvan said the Opposition were prepared to accept a land purchase scheme, but Mr Balfour's Bill was framed in the interests of the landlords.