IRELAND'S PEASANTS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13479, 19 July 1907, Page 5

IRELAND'S PEASANTS.

THE EVICTED TENANTS BILL.

United Press Association. — By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. LONDON, July 18. In the House of Commons the Ulster Unionists made vigorous efforts in the committee stage to limit the benefit of the Evicted Tenants' Bill to 2000 tenSnts, and to prevent the compulsory acquisition of more than 80,000 acres. The Right Hon. A. Birrell, Secretary for Ireland, xefused to limit the powers of the Commissioners.

The trapper in the lonely ranges grim ; The miner gasping in the drivings dim ; The horseman winding cattle o^r the plain; The farmer, husbanding his golden grain ; The pressman scorning time at dead of night ; The high, the low, and the cosmopolite ; The shiv'ring beggar and the epicure — New Zealanders all — use Woods 1 Great P«pparmint Cure. 13