THE EVICTIONS IN IRELAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12055, 27 August 1902, Page 5

THE EVICTIONS IN IRELAND.

TENANTS PAYING UP. By Telegrapli.-Press Association.-Copyright. London, August 25. • The evictions of tenants on the Defreyne estates, in Connaught, Ireland, have been completed. Several of the evicted paid ■' up their rents and resumed possession.

On "July 2 a long and heated debate on the Irish land question was precipitated in the House of Commons. Mr. Thomas W. Russell (Liberal) moved the adjournment of the House to discuss the pending evictions from tho estate tof Lord Defreyne. Mr. Russell declared that unless the Government intervened to prevent these evictions an era of < trouble and turmoil would bo inaugurated in the West of Ireland, where there was trouble enoutrh already. Mr. Wyndham replied to Air Russell, with some asperity that ho was surprised to find him siding against law and order. The rents from tho Defreyne estate, he said, had beon reduced 37 per cent, in the last 20 years. His advice to the tenants was to pay up. This statement was greeted wit groans from the Irish members. Hundreds had done so, said Mr. Wyndham— tins remark was received with cheers-and many more would like to but were intimidated. Mr. Wyndham said it was impossible to carry oti* the land purchase schome in Ireland when it was interrupted by agitators who desired to make government there impossible. After other members of the House had spoken on the subject Mr. Russell's motion for an adjournment was defeated by 231 votes to 132.