TWELVE YEARS OF WRONG-DOING

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 48, 29 November 1900, Page 10

TWELVE YEARS OF WRONG-DOING

upon tho part of the Land Commission— twelve years during which in every ca-e of reclamation the money belonging to the tenant had i Hum liv yone into the pocket of the landlord. A Sub-Commission (halt with a case of reclamation near Ballymena— by the way it was the \t-uablo David Adams and the veritable Mrs Dunaeath, the vety taim upon which the original case arose. Mr Adams had reclaimed land. The Sub-Cummission acted upon what Lord Justice * it^ibbua stated to be the law before the Parliamentary Committee. It gave David Adams fire or six per cent of his expenditure and it oivided the increased letting value between landlord and tenant, allowing one-half for the inherent properties of the soil, the other half to the tenant for his exertions in developing these properties. What happened ? There was the usual appeal. Mr Justice Meredith heard it and promptly decided against Lord Justice Pitzgibbon •> view, and the Sub-Commission was reversed. Fanoy David Adam-* toiling to reclaim an Antrim bog, and having done so only to hud that he had rained the letting value from, perhaps, 3s to 14a an acre ' The case creatt d a profound sensation in Ulster The decision shook all faith in the Chief Land Commission, and gave rise to the fatal distrust in regard to Mr Justice Meredith's Court which now everywhere exists.