Show The Earls Bill LONDON April IIn the House of Lords Earl Cardigan Conservative has presented pre-sented a bill providing for the purchase of Irish holdings or in other words for the abolition of the system of ownership created cre-ated by the act of 1881 It was proposed he said to admit leaseholders to the benefits bene-fits of the act of 1881 Cheers The leaseholders lease-holders whose lease expired prior to 1881 numbering 160000 were to be admitted to the benefits of the act of 1881 in the same manner as those whose leases expired in that year |