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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 99, 8 April 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

‘•Anybody called ?” asked a voting solicitor wh”n he rc‘timed from lunch. I 'A es, sir said >.h.? offiee-bov : “seven I 1 h--n:.’’ I ‘-flood gracious! ’ excitvd'v exclaim- | cd th? young silicitor. “Did vou tel! I th#ni to call again?” I ’‘Oh thev’ll come bark right enough."’ (said the boy: “,wo were canvasser? for j private Christmas-eards. one was ths ’ rate-,-o’tector, another the buteber with | his ncconnci. a travel’cr in pills, and | the two Pai-Pamcntary candidates’’ I Corfu, where a magnificent mnrhTs rc-’ac# Ixs’onging to the German Emp“ior has reeen'lv been purchased br ; n-i American millionaire can boost of i the most, peculiar land laws in th« : world. The landlords are nearly a’l abj .‘entces. and heir tenants hold the land ; on a p rpetnal loose in return for a j renr payment in kind and fixed ,-t, a | certain proportion of the produce. Such I n tenant is 'onsidered a co-owner of ■ :hc soil, and he cannot h# expelled. I except for non-payment of rent, bad I cu’tiiro. or the ‘ronsfer of h s lense, i w ithont the landlord’s consent; neither . <-:in his rent bo raised wi hout his peri mission. Attempts have been made to alter th” law but both landlords and tenants are apparently satisfied with a j evstem that dates back to the time of . Homer.