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devoted to Eandlestown, where the party met Colonel Everard 

 and had an opportunity of seeing the tobacco experiments, the 

 Hereford cattle, and the exceedingly rich grass lands in the 

 district. The evening was spent in l)ublin. 



On Tuesday the Southern Section divided into two. One 

 section, accompanied by Mr Cunningham of the Land Com- 

 mission, most able and interesting of guides, proceeded to 

 Luggacurran, Queen's County, for the purpose of examining the 

 most interesting work of the Land Commission in that neighbour- 

 hood. The Land <Jommission bought Lord Lansdowne's estates 

 there, and are at work reinstating the evicted tenants. They are 



SODTHERN PARTY IN VALE OF AVOCA : "THE MEETING OF THE WATERS" 



at the present time building charming houses suited to the 

 beautiful landscape — white harled houses, with broken gables 

 and long low windows, alike graceful and convenient. The 

 steadings are still to construct, but the Land Commission are 

 apparently determined to make the homestead, with the twenty 

 odd acres of land which will constitute a holding, as comfortable 

 and as complete as the money at their disposal will permit, not 

 only with the view of benefiting these individual small holders, 

 but with the view of making the holdings an object-lesson to the 

 small holders of Ireland generally. On leaving Luggacurran, this 

 section proceeded to Waterford. The other section, which left 

 Dublin in the morning, had gone direct to Eathdrum in County 

 Wicklow. From Eathdrum they drove to Avondale, once owned 

 by the late Mr Charles Stewart Parnell. The mansion-house and 

 demesne were bought in 1904 by the Department of Agriculture, 



