§ MR. SEXTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the man dismissed by Mr. Tuke's Emigration Committee, in the Belmullet district, for having, by false representations, enabled a person emigrated by the Committee to take with him, as his wife, a young girl of seventeen, whom he abducted and seduced, has yet been dismissed from the post of relieving officer in the Belmullet Union?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, although Mr. Tuke's Committee did not feel justified in further employing this man as one of their agents, the Local Government Board could not require his dismissal from the position of relieving officer without a fuller inquiry into the matter. Very little inquiry is required 77 by a private body; but it is different in the case of a Government officer. The Local Government Board are at present in communication with the Board of Guardians on the subject.