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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XX, Issue 269, 11 November 1886, Page 2

J ■ ■ i It has been reserved for Adelaide to provide i us with the latest marked instance of the i law's delays. And a cruel instance it is, in , all faith. Some years ago (says the ■ Melbourne correspondent of an exohange) L a man named Whittaker inherited an estate by reason of being next of kin. He . journeyed all the way from the States in the - hopes of enjoying of his property, valued , at some £10,000. But the law had got > its grip on the estate, and the carcase i was much too fat a one to relinquish j while there was a scrap of flesh on it. . Year by year law point after law point i was raised, and bills of cost by the thousand i folios piled up. Now Whittaker would win i the day, then the Grown would appeal and f the case would be set back. Whittaker t meanwhile was forced to work literally by the > sweat of his brow to keep things going. The i years followed one another, and found . Whittaker still fighting, tooth and nail, for i his just rights, remember. At last, after 20 • years' struggling, the Crown was finally 5 beaten. But the £10,000 had long since gone into the pockets of the advocates. Whittaker i himself could put eight years on to man's . allotted span. King Death too was abroad, and right on the moment of his triumph ) gathered the victor in after the latter suffering t from a fatal fit of apoplexy. j Mr Tuke, who visit ed the West of Ireland fco distribute the seed potato fund, in hie i report says:— "ln thi j , my eighth visit, durI ing recent years to the West of Ireland, I have agaiu been profoundly impressed with 3 the condition of chronic mißery, the ever--3 existing: d- s-titution of the small holders of land. The fact that the email holdings of 3 worn-out land cannot support the crowded f population ia no longer a debateable quea tion. It is unanimously borne witness to. t From priest, or landlord, or tenant there is t hut one respouse: -' Without other means of . earning money there is no possibility of i living out of the land.' 'The living isn't in 1 it, rent or no rent, yer honor !' And cun it j be otherwise ? Consider Achill, with its r thousand families, cf whom three-fourths are living on holdings so email thnt the rental or valuation does not exceed 30s a year each — and few of the remainder exceed £4 a yearl Take another inetanca in Conuemara, of 1000 families attempting to live on i 1700 acres of arable bog land, more patches t of soil lying among great boulders." Mr I Tuke, though he believes in judicious emif gration, thinks more might be done for the > people by putting the fisheries on a better footing. " Rough on Catabrh " corrects offensive j i odors at once. Complete cure of worst i chronic cases ; also unequalled as gargle for ■ diptheria, sore throat, foul breath.