The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-01-12 00:00:00

TRIc LAND AL!'y IN IRELAND.

A rime under the Land Act, penguin': some novel
featurte, has just been decided by Mr. De Moleyint
chairman of county Kilkenne. As • rule holdings in
Ireland have been let below their value, and the better
bargain an thin way the tenant may have hail Me larger
the claim he think. I If entitled to put in for compen•
Betio!, for ilistisrlaniv. In thin ease, however, the tenant,
a Mr. Joseph MeGrath, had in 149 become the year
tenant of a farm of acren, at • rent 11 £Ol a year, bid
by him over other applicants. After one year's occupation
and payment of one year's rent he found that he had
made a bail bargain, and actually got the then landlord,
who had only a life interest, to rehire the rent to £lO.
Two yearn later the lanillool died, and his nucceusir. Mr.
Pierce •iannolly, the respondent in the present case, inti•
mate.( to lib-Gnat-it that lie could only be allowed to con-
tinue in occupation on the condition that he paid the rent
of DM at flint agreed upon. tliqinath decline), a notice to
quit was served, and hence the present proceedings. The
total amount claimed was £SI6 Is. tkl., including four
year.. rent (Lien for "ilinturbance (the claimant having
been five yearn in occupation altogether). The remainder
was made up of claimn on account id repairs and improve-
ments and unexhausted manures, including in the latter
category farnayaril manures ;,,it I.n the land in Kit The
chairman said that the claimant actually sought for an
amount equal to noire than the entire fee simple of the
farm at twenty years' purchase on his own (Mc(lrath.)
valuation at .1:10 a year, and he nought this as conapensa.
for getting rid of a 1.1 bargain," freely entered into by
himself in 14t1. Ile (the chairman), however, awardol
him £4O (one year's rent) for disturbance, and .C 714 under
the either inmate—in all £lll. which, after liquidating two
and a quarter years' rent now due, will leave him 12:6 Li.
to put in his pocket Ile was also allowed his costs, the
chairman observing that he ilbi so because McGrath had
not rt.i.ted the litigation connected with his ejectnimt.

ANoTH CER RLAT JEWELLERY ROBBERY.
An extensitc rolakry of jewellery took place on Friday
night at the residence of the Count and Countess of
Morelia, Virginia Water, Surrey. The theft was com-
mitted while the family were at dinner and gold watches
chains, bromlies, necklaces, rings, and trinkete of various
kinds, amounting in value to Eltitel, were stolen from the
counted* dressing•room. Two strange iten were noticed
late in the evening at the VirginM Water Station of the
London and South-Western Railway, and thence went on
to London.

firEPOSED LoSS OF A LARGE STEAMER.
The Kathleen Mary (4eamer), Capt. John Hottan,
which went out from Cardiff, 7th October last, for
°dews, whence she again mailed on her return voyage for
Falmouth, .n the 7th of the following month, has, it is to
be feared, been lost with all hands. It is stated that on
bar bmiieward pluisa,ze she put into Malta, owing to very
tempestuous weatlierjniaile two attempts to proceed:and
was coutpelled ta return but she eventually left again on
the Med of No% ember. It is feared she seas lost about the
7th of last month. She was never heard of after leaving
Gibraltar. lier crew, shippe.l at Cardiff. in October,
consisted of 2. anioniogt them being Henry R. Lee,
carpenter, of Domet, aged 31.