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M. Godecharle, son of the Belgian sculptor, has just died and left the sum of 600,000 f for the benefit of Belgian sculptors. The interest, which will amount to 30,000 f, will be divided into prizes to be given yearly to the best sculptors. According to the Bruce Scrald, the work of forming the branch railway line to Kaitangata is progressing rapidly. Already two miles have been formed ready for laying the plates, one and a half miles have been fenced, and a large culvert has been cut to drain the water into Kaitangata Creek. Some fifty Chinamen and sixteen Europeans are employed on the work, and in about another month the formation will be completed to Stirling station; This line passes over a swamp. .Again, there was a great discussion at the Salisbury hotel, Fleet street, on the same subject, in which Sir T. Acland and other members of Parliament joined. The resolution in relation to compulsion was as follows: — “That this Council disapprove the 37th clause (reserving freedom of contract), unless the following words be added thereto:— ‘ Provided that in every agreement there shall be expressed some bona fide consideration for improvements specified in the 3rd and 4th schedules of this Act.’ ” That is, we take it, freedom of contract shall be reserved within very moderate limits, but not beyond those limits. That is a neat way of so modifying the Bill as to introduce a measure of compulsion, and yet leave a certain “scope for personal negotiation between landlord and tenant. These tenantfarmers, under their present guidance, are becoming very astute tacticians,! and their spokesmen will soon be recognised powers in the House of Commons, The farmers are not relaxing in their efforts to get rid of the 37th clause of the Government’s Tenant-right Bill, At a meeting held of the Tenant Farmers’ Club in Salisbury Square, when Professor Fawcett spoke and advocated compulsory compensation for improvements on the ground that it was the only security which would induce the farmer to sink his capital in the soil, Mr C. S. Read, M.P., who expressed himself totally opposed to the 37th and 38th clauses, declared that if they insisted on compulsory compensation they must lose the Bill, for in the House of Lords there was only one Member in favour of compulsion, while in the House of Commons there were but ten county members for it.” “Compulsion would never be got from the present House, and as it seemed the fashion to have permissive legislation, this might be taken, and a future Parliament asked to make it compulsory,” and yet the meeting agreed that a measure unsettling the present relati®ns between tenant and landlord, and not at at the same time securing the new relations on a strong basis, will do more harm than good to tenants holding from year to year—which was, we take it, a condemnation of the Bill as it now stands.

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