Mr D. Kebse moved—"That in the opinion of this Society it would be to the interests of the Scotch crofters and of Australasia if we could induce the Home Government to send out a large number of them to the colonies, where we believe the Colonial Governments could be in duced to grant them lands for settlement near the sea suitable for their fishing and other industries." He wished to point out that the crofters had been most cruelly treated by the landlords, who found that they could get more money for hunting purposes than for grazing. Both the Scottish crofters and the Irish tenants were being treated at that time in a way which they there could not understand. They were fightiDg the battle of indepen dence now buth in Scotland and Ireland. In the former the chiefs had appropriated the land and in Ireland English soldiers had bsen granted land which had been confiscated.
