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programme advocated by James Fintan Lalor, John Fisher
Murray, John Mitchel, J. F. X. O’Brien and others, the
agrarian policy of Michael Davitt, the constitutional
agitation of Charles Stewart Parnell (M. P. for Cork City),

the programme of peace, retrenchment and reform of
William Ewart Gladstone (M. P. for Midlothian, N. B.)
and, in support of his political convictions, had climbed up
into a secure position amid the ramifications of a tree on
Northumberland road to see the entrance (2 February
1888) into the capital of a demonstrative torchlight
procession of 20,000 torchbearers, divided into 120 trade
corporations, bearing 2000 torches in escort of the
marquess of Ripon and (honest) John Morley.
How much and how did he propose to pay for this
country residence?
As per prospectus of the Industrious Foreign
Acclimatised Nationalised Friendly Stateaided Building
Society (incorporated 1874), a maximum of 60 pounds per
annum, being 1/6 of an assured income, derived from
giltedged securities, representing at 5 % simple interest on
capital of 1200 pounds (estimate of price at 20 years’
purchase), of which to be paid on acquisition and the
balance in the form of annual rent, viz. 800 pounds plus 2
1/2 % interest on the same, repayable quarterly in equal

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