TALL TALK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 447, 4 November 1881, Page 21

TALL TALK.

The correspondent of the Freeman, writing from Nenagh, says :— To-day (Sept. 4) a meeting was held at Bilvennines, about five miles from Nenagh, at two o'clock. There was a large attendance. On the motion of Mr. William Gleeson, seconded by Mr. Michael Kennedy, the chair was taken by the Rev. Mr. Lynch. The chairman advised the people not to rest content with the Land Bill, but to adhere to the Land League. If they accepted the Bill as a full measure of justice, they would very soon learn that they had made a very great mistake — they would lose the sympathy and assistance of their friends all over the world. Therefore they should stand together and give strenuous opposition to the shoneen landlords. As an evidence of the spirit of landlordism he called on them to listen to the letter of a landlord written to a most respectable tenant whose rent was increased four or five years ago, and who, a few months ago, applied to his landlord for a reduction. Mr. Peter Gill read the letter. It was addressed to Mr. Dagg, a resolute Land Leaguer of that parish, and was as follows : — " 23 Gloucester-place, Portman-square, December 30, 1880. " Mr. Dagg, — I hear from Mr. Bayley that you will not pay any more than what you call Griffith's valuation, which you well know is no value at all. Of course I cannot make you honest, but I can punish you for being dishonest. This I intend to do. If, therefore, you do not pay to Mr. Bayley a full year's rent by the Ist of February (mind, a full year's rent) I shall file a petition against you in the Bankruptcy Court. If you do not pay as you will be ordered to do, you will be declared a bankrupt, and your property will be given over I to be disposed of for the benefit of your creditors, of whom I shall be one. You need not natter yourself that there will be no sale and no bidders, for I shall have people there to bid for me, and shall gat, if there are no bidders in these times, all the property you have, the lease included, sold to me for a few shillings. The cattle and goods I shall give to the mob, whom you will find just as ready to plunder you as you are to plunder me. The buildings I shall burn down, and let the land run to waste to recover the fertility of which, no doubt, owing to your style of farming, you have pretty well deprived it. Af I have few wants, no debts, no family, and a good English income, the loss would be a mere nothing to me, and I shall have the satis* faction of punishing you — I trust rendering you for life an inmate of the Nenagh Union.

" Col. W. Mabeblky." The chairman said that letter spoke for itself, and proved the necessity for agitation.