§ MR. BYRNE (Wicklow, W.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, When the Land Commissioners will hold their next sitting in West Wicklow; whether it is true that the tenants on an estate in Donard, County Wicklow, have had ejectments served on them for one year's rent three days after it was due; whether the County Court Judge, in the case of Terence Higgins, accepted half a year's rent in settlement; and, whether, on a rent of £18 5s., valuation £13, the tenant was mulcted in £2 costs.
§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. Madden) (Dublin University)(who replied) said: The Land Commissioners report that it is intended to have a sitting of a Sub-Commission at Baltinglass next January for the western portion of the County Wicklow. I understand that there were only two cases of ejectment entered at last Sessions from the Donard estate, and that in one of these only was there but one year's rent due. This was the case of Terence Higgins, which is mentioned in the Question; but it is not the fact that it was settled by the County Court Judge in the manner alleged. He made a "nil" order in the case. As regards the last paragraph, assuming that it relates to the case of Higgins, whose rent, however, was £18 9s., not £18 5s., there were no costs awarded by the Court.