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tional land was allotted to the crofters, who now, with their families, 

 number nearly 400, instead of less than 100 ; and the crofts or lots left 

 to them are far from sufficient for their subsistence. 



After hearing counsel, their Lordships ordered the case 

 to be set down for trial at ten o'clock on the pth of March, 

 the evidence to be taken before Lord Shand. 



Meanwhile Mr. Emslie, and Mr. MacLachlan, with John 

 Macpherson, proceeded to Glendale, to precognose wit- 

 nesses on behalf of the accused. This completed, 



THE TRIAL 



Took place as arranged, before Lord Shand on the 9th 

 of March, Mr. J. P. P. Robertson, and Mr. Graham Murray 

 conducting the case on behalf of the Trustees, and Mr. 

 John H. Macdonald, Q.C., Dean of Faculty, Mr. Dugald 

 Mackechnie, and Mr. D. Burnet, appearing for the crofters, 

 Mr. Donald Mackinnon, M.A., Professor of Celtic Languages 

 in the University of Edinburgh, acted as interpreter. The 

 evidence was strictly confined to the question of Breach of 

 Interdict. The general question of the crofters' grievances, 

 and of how they had been driven to extremes, was sternly 

 excluded from consideration. Mr. Donald Macdonald, 

 Tormore, late factor, distinctly admitted, however, in cross- 

 examination, that the people "did not propose to get Water- 

 stein for nothing," but were willing to pay for it a rent, " to 

 be matter of adjustment like any other rent ". He also 

 admitted that there were other grounds for the crofters' com- 

 plaints about the Borodale sheep grazing on Milovaig; that 

 100 was the proper summing, although the tenants were 

 allowed by him to have on it at least double that number, and 

 that these sheep were driven by the Waterstein shepherds on 

 to the Milovaig grazings. " That complaint," he admitted, 

 " may be quite true." The Waterstein shepherd also ad- 



