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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 47, 21 March 1884, Page 25

Still at it 1 The following telegram, dated Boyle, Tuesday, has appeared in the Freeman, : — Mr. George James, sub-sheriff for Bosscommon, sccompanied by a large force of constabulary, was engaged to-day and yesterday in carrying out a number of evictions for nonpayment of rent on the estate of Colonel King-Harman, M.P. Yes erday four families named Killelea Ganly, Battle, and M'Grath, whoresid'e on a bleak portion of the Curlew Mountains, were evicted for a year and a half's rent, which they owed to November last. These unfortunate people slept last night on the roadside, and in all the cases they offered a year's rent, which was refused, and they are unable to make up the balance on' account of the prohibition of fairs and markets. To-day the evictions on the same property were continued at Camlin. As a rackrenter and evictor "Colonel" King Harmann is, assuredly, comine to the front with a rush. A landlord who is convicted, as the " Colonel " was the other day, by one j(bf her Majesty's courts, of having extorted for years exorbitant rants from some of his tenants, and who is vigorously engaged in throwing out others of them on the roadside in mid- Winter for practically half a year's rent, which is itself probably not due in equity, bids fair to become entitled to special distinction even in these days of plundering and murderous landlordism.— Nation, Jan. 19,