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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 411, 25 February 1881, Page 15

A Mi. Stephens, Attorney-at law, Pretoria, has uudertaken to put the Transvaal question in a previously unseen light. Introducing tbe light, he says :— " I cannot understand the argument that the Boers, or any other nation, by virtue of their occupation alone, have apjescriptivc right to any country, In this Mother Earth of ours there are only so many square miles of ground, which not the greatest among us can add to or detract frona one iota. We are all the children of the earth, in the sense that sle it is that supports us, and from whom we are entitled to support, and it is as idle as it is useless for any body of men to seek to isolate themselves from their fellows, and to occupy vast tracts of land which they are unable to put to its best uses." That is a poser for the Boers, and Englishmen, too. — Graaf Iteinet Advertiser. The Paris univers publishes a long letter from Sister Mary Francis Clare, of Kenmare, on the Irisb question. She takes M. Molinari and a correspondent of the Figaro severely to task for giving their countrymen a one-sided account of the situation of Ireland. M. Molinari, who she understands cannot speak a word of English, would, of course, and did only trust to the landlords for his information. While Lord Lansdowne's agent, for instancy, was denying to him that there was any distress in Ireland, her friends were feeding and clothing Lord Lansduwne's tenants. All voices, she says, are enrolled against tbe tj v * . tMn>zs are exaggerated, and many things are reported which afn.~\>ards turn out to be inventions ; and the fact is the landlords iv Ireland are neither afraid of their tenants, their servants, nor the population. They only feai- the truth. If it were known how they extort their rev- from the unfortunate tenant «, who | are forced to submit to everything jecause they are tied 10 the soil, ■ there would be laws for the repression of land usurers, like money usurers. , A national convention of the liish Land and Industrial League 1 of the United States will be held at St. James' Hall, Buffalo, January •12 and 13. Representatives from nearly all the branches of the League, both in the Unite 1 States and Canada, will be present at the convention. The chief objects of the League in this country are to support Parnell and assist the League in Ireland. As the latter end | is best attained by furnishing the necessary aid, arrangements will I be made at the convention to furnish such a sum as will materially ! assist the oppressed in Ireland.