NEWS BY THE MAIL,

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 42, 14 February 1874, Page 12

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

A Cruel Eviction. — That Mr Butt doe» not compULu without reason of the shortcomings of Mr Gladstone's Land Act, the following letter from a correspondent of the 'Cork Examiner' will sufficiently prove . — I have witnessed a sight to-day on the lauds of Lisheenowen and Knockpoge, and I wish fromiry heart I would never again witness Buch another. The sheriff of the county, with Mr Russell, of Cork T agent to Wm. Oliver Jackson^Ji- Ahinisk, Midleton ; Sub Inspector iSheehan, of Mallow, eighty of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and six bailiifs proceeded ou well appointed cars to the above lands. The bailiffs at once, wi'h the Sheriff,, entered the dwellings of the tenantry to be evicted, and ga^e orders to have them, cleared at once ot the furniture. A scene took place in each house as vra went along that bamVs a description from my pen. The poor housewife and her children— oh, to hear their lamentations would softuH any heart, one would think, but Mr. Russell stood it well, and tho only response he i gave was that he had no alternative, that the e vie! ion was uut his doing, and that the law should be put in force. I offered to pay Mr. Russell one year's rent for the four tenants if they were allowed to remain on the lands. He refused. He said it was not for non-payment of the rent they were put out, but on the title. I asked and implored of him to take them as caretakers for a month, until suoli time as they would provide a house to live in. The answer to every, offer made to him was " No, I cannot do it." He had a well appointed brigade from, Cork, with crowbars, locks, aud staples, and with a williug hand they went to busines, and made short work of the furniture, the butter, cream, and milk, all thrown out ou the dung hill. The police, though used to hard lines, shed tears." Guinness's Drewery in Dublin was endangered by a seriouj fire | which broke out in its neighbourhood. A large portion of the stock, and premises of a glue ni inufactory was destroyed aud tlie damage was estimated at Jt's,ooo. A mikmau has been fined £15 at Dublin for selling as milk a mixture consisting of 90 per cent, aud 10 per cent, of milk ; tlio magistrate explaining thai he had not imposed the full penalty of £Z0 because he wished to leave himself a margin of £5 to meet the case of any enterp-isiug trader who might" carry adulteration to a yet further pitch." Nearly 2,000 copies of the first number of " Livas of the Irish Saiuta " are already disposed^of, aud au impression of I,O JO mo>-e will apoii be issued. As tiie Cork harriers were iv chase over the Mallow country, on Nov. 11, they ran on to the railway, despite the efforts of the whipperin and being overtaken by the mail train several of them. w,ero killed or, othervt ise injured.