Mr.Kilbride held his lands on life leases.

Mr.Dunne held his smallest holding of 84 acres on a yearly tenure; his two largest holdings, one on a lease for 31 years from 1874, and the other on a life lease, and his fourth holding of 172 acres on a life lease.
Where does the hardship appear in all this to Mr.Dunne or Mr.Kilbride?
On Mr.Kilbride's holdings, for instance, Lord Lansdowne expended over L3000, for which he added to the rent L130 a year, or about 4 per cent., while he himself stood to pay 6-1/2 per cent, on the loans he made from the Board of Works for the expenditure.

In the same way it was with Mr.
Dunne's farms.

They were mostly in grass, and Lord Lansdowne laid out more than L2500 on them, borrowed at the same rate from the Board, for which he added to the rent only L66 a year, or about 2-1/2 per cent.

Mr.
Kilbride was a Poor-Law Guardian, and Mr.Dunne a Justice of the Peace.
The leases in both of these cases, and in those of other large tenants, seem to have been made at the instance of the tenants themselves, and afforded security against any advance in the rental during a time of high agricultural prices.