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given to them, they were lent to them, and in each case 

 a legal mortgage was executed. The only other charity 

 was, that she did not charge them interest. This was three 

 years ago, and in stating what the result was he could not 

 but pay a passing tribute to one man in the district, the 

 Rev. Father Davis, to whom a great part of the success 

 of the experiment was due. Every half-year a balance 

 sheet was presented to him, showing how the half-yearly 

 instalments were paid off, and on the one presented last 

 April there was not one single £ i in arrear, with the 

 exception of one man who had suffered great misfortune 

 owine to the storms, and was a little behindhand. With 

 that exception the whole of these men had paid their 

 instalments, and were on the high road to own these boats, 

 and he believed the gentlemen who came from that 

 district would bear him out in saying that to a certain 

 extent the face of that small and at one time benighted 

 district had been changed into a prosperous and healthy 

 one. 



Major Hayes (Inspector of Irish Fisheries) wished to 

 add a word or two with regard to a statement made by 

 Mr. Walpole regarding Irish fisheries. He had expressed 

 regret that they were doing so little in Ireland — that the 

 take per head only amounted to about one ton as com- 

 pared with five or six tons in Scotland, and a somewhat 

 greater proportion in England. Now he did not think 

 the quantity of fish captured should be judged of in 

 that way, because immense quantities were caught in 

 Ireland, where there were no railways or steam commu- 

 nication, and this fish was carried through Ireland by 

 "cadgers" or "jolters," people with donkey-carts, who sup- 

 plied the surrounding country. Again, in dealing . with 

 Scotch fisheries, he should point out that Irishmen fished the 



