EVICTION POWDER.
According to St. James' Gazette, a French chemist asserts that he has concocted a substance by means ■of ■ which tenants, iu Ireland or elsewhere, who will not pay their rents may be evicted without difficulty, and without the expenses attendant on legal proceedings. The mixture is in the form of a powder. A small quantity of it sprinkled before sunrise on parts of the land adjacent to the tenant's dwelling will render it absolutely impossible for any human being to remain within half a mile of the spot where the sprinkling has taken place for at least seven days, when the process should, if necessary, be repeated. The effect of the powder is to produce violent nausea and other feelings of so uncomfortable a kind as to be quite unbearable. It is, however, not dangerous to life, and produces ho injurious effects on cattle. Under arrangements the inventor, is making, Irish landlords will soon be able to buy the powder at any respectable ohemist's shop in Dublin at a reasonable price". " Land Leaguers -will, he thinks, also 'find At-usetul W:thK.-purpo3Boi. KgttAg-CTrt,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6063, 23 April 1881, Page 7
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183EVICTION POWDER. New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6063, 23 April 1881, Page 7
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