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on viiiac^i 'ah it ^ uv lAPi j nrto t\ ^duj;ci luuiaic ulthe Tralee Workhouse has sent home jewellery to a friend. The Local Government Board Inspector in the district, Major Spaight, states that in not a single instance has he received a discouraging report of the emigrants, and the reports recently received by him of the emigrants seat from his former district in Mavo are of a similar character. The general tone of the letters reoeived is that of thankfulness for having been enabled to leave the country. Nothing is being done within the limits of Tralee Union, but in the Caherciveen Union committees have been formed at Valentia and at Caherciveen under the provision of the Tramways Act which enables the Lord Lieutenant to make grants to committees formed in places where the poor law guardians do not take action. These committees have conducted the necessary inquiries, and made the requisite arrangements for the emigration of 600 persons—a number which will be increased to about a thousand should the Government authorities grant some slight relaxation of the conditions. By the conditions as at present laid down a grunt of only £5 per head is given in respect of emigrants whose destination is to the east of a certain line in the United States or Canada. That sum the committee find to be insufficient to defray the expenses of the emigration of a number of the applicants, and a representation to this effect has been forwarded to Dublin Castle, with a request that the regulation may be modified and the gTant increased. A request has also been forwarded for a relaxation of the rules as to the class of persons eligible for assisted emigration—rules which in some cases prevent emigration of eligible persons in a way that never was intended. The people who are thus preparing to emigrate from Caherciveen Union are of a somewhat different class, or rather are emigrating under somewhat different circumstances from those of many of the emigrants of past years. They are to a large extent small occupiers who, having got their judicial rents fixed, have sold their holdings, having previously made up their mind to leave the country. In many cases the produce of the sale .has done little more than enable the poor people to pay their debts, and in some cases the payment of their debts has swallowed up the entire produce of the sale of their holdings. This will not surprise any one who knows how the small, and even some'of the moderately large, farmers of the west and south-west of Ireland had to straggle for existence ; how the gombeen man kept them within his grasp, and how the banks were resorted to by them in order to raise money “ to keep things going ” It is, on the contrary, surprising that even with the additional assets derived through the Land Act of 1881 any considerable number of this class should be found to be solvent. A difficulty, however, has arisen with regard to a number of them. The amount granted by the Government of £-5 per hea is foand to be not quite sufficient, and unless a relaxation of the rule in this respect i9 conceded it will be impossible to emigrate many of them, and the result in those numerous cases in which they have sold the int t in their holdings will be that they will become paupers, chargeable on the rates of the union. Representations to this effect have been forwarded, as already mentioned, to the Lord-Lieutenant, and it is earnestly hoped that his Excellency will see fit to comply with the request which has been put forward.—Returnin to Dublin from Traleebv thp pvpnino- trnin. ravs a corresnondeat of the Londo i
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London North News and Finbury Gazette
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Mar 29, 1884
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