Gladstone’s Irish Reform Scheme.
London, iuUi A pul. The Land Purchase Bill was introduced and read for the first lime in the Hours' id Commons to-day. The measure piovides that the Irish Parliament shad appoint a State authority which shall purchase lands, paying for them in bonds at par, bearing , percent interest, the total amount being £ 50.000,000 during three *' . J Th sale price of the land* is to be * ' 4 . J“»; on^teStoJ rental of ‘ be P rc £* during the year 1885. ~ Ml are Sot touched by la-vrv ir - expropriation it to be comhonal *■’ ‘ l^e congested districts,{and op--r- aisewhere. x ne press generally condemns Mr. Gladstone’s scheme for land purchase in Ireland, London, 18th April. Mr Parnell in a speech, warned Irish landlords that the offer now made for the purchase of their lauds will not be repeated. He regards Mr. Chamberlain’s scheme as dangerous, despite all that may.be done towards modifying it
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1823, 21 April 1886, Page 2
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152Gladstone’s Irish Reform Scheme. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1823, 21 April 1886, Page 2
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