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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 6, 1 June 1883, Page 5

Contrast Belgium or Prussia with Ireland. In Ireland are to be Been immense estates held and let at second-hand by "middlemen," and let and sub- let again, like a sporadic growth, generating its kind till it reached, if it did reach, its unit in the potatoe patch. In Bel gium the law, which facilitates and cheapens pmchase to the small equally with the large buyer, beginning at the small end, so to speak, sets to work the care and prudence of every individual who can buy, HO matter what the quantity. The result shows itself in the conduct and character of the whole people. In each case the land reflects, like a mirror, the motives set to work upon it. Take away the individual sense of property and the opposite result is seen, — " Land Laws n England," by Wren Haskins.