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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 12, 11 July 1884, Page 22

According to a report at Aden, O3tnan Digma has sent a message to the King of Abyssinia threatening an attack unless all the Christians in Abyssinia become Moslems. A correspondent writes to the Nation : — Two poor widows have just been evicted from their wretched bog holdings in Ballyoughter parish of Dorrha, North Tipperary. The victims of the " Sentences of deatli "—Margaret Holland and Margaret Hogan— owed two years' rent each. They repeatedly offered one year's rent each, through their parish priest, with, a promise of the balance iv instalments. The holdings were cut-away bog whose value entirely arose from the indnstry of the evicted and their predecessors. When little hovels were erected on these plots they were valued at £1 each. The rent exacted was in one case £2 12s, in the other £2 10s— the lower of the two being 150 per cent, above the valuation. The landlord is Darius MacEgan, of Frankfort- Avenue, Rathgar, and the agent who took possession a local tenant-farmer.