THE LAND WAR.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 460, 3 February 1882, Page 21

THE LAND WAR.

To tbe editor of the Dublin freeman. The Grove Manse, Castleblayney, 14th November. Slß,— What right had tbe landlord to send any such notice to me as the following one, which was handed me this morning 7—7 — " Bent notice — Templetown Estate. " My office bere will be open as usual for the receipt of rent every I Wednesday, and also each day from the 2nd to the 7th January, 1882, both dates inclusive. No county cess will be allowed toanyone whose rent is unpaid after last-named date. " H. G. Bbooke, Agent. "Templetown Estate Office, Ist November, 1881." On the back of the above notice are written the following words by tbe meek bailiff of Lord Templetown :—: — •• The Rev. Matthew Macaulay,-— Sir,— I take the liberty of leaving this note for you. — Yours truly, "James Cabbagheb." Now, this &gfnt who is at such pains to give due intimation to me about his office being open as a city of refuge, is the very man who, when I last entered it, insulted me before a great number of tenants. I refused, therefore, though noticed about his open office, to enter it while he is the presiding divinity, Still further, I hereby, with your generous permission, sir, serve him with the following notice :— " I, Matthew Macaulay, give you, H. Gustavus Brooke, agent of General George Frederick Viscount Templetown, due notice that, one month after the Land Commission shall have fixed the judicial rent of my land, or one month after a low and fair rent shall have been settled for it by arbitration, or other methods, I shall endeavour to havt such rent in readiness for you, Gustavns Brooke, when you shall come for it to my house, and bring with you a legal receipt, and give it to me the moment after I hand the rent to you. Besides this, I further guarantee that when you so come to my house for such rent, I shall not insult you, as you insulted me, nor iball I permit you to be insulted."

Let all other tenants on the estate follow the examp'e I have thus set them, and the tyrannical and political power of impudent landlordism will melt like snow in sunshine before us. It will be their own fault if any longer they consent to be slaves and pay rack* rents. The wilderness of Sin, in A3ia, is not much inferior to the land of this estate. Not one inch of it is worth more than 2s. 6\., 0r from that to 10s. per Irish acre. Scores of small farms ou it would not produce a sufficiency of food for the families who reside on them. Then, where is the rent to come from ? Ye 3, where ? Let the agent come to you for the rent, a? the poor-rate collector, or the ceas- (gatherer'; let him go round the country, the exercise and fresh air will b 3 good for him. It is surely time for you to break through tbe exactions and usurpations which insolent landlords have heaped for ages on yon ancestors and yourselves. — I am, sir, yours truly, Matthbw Maoaulay, Presbyterian Minister.