§ MR. T. P. O'CONNORasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether his attention has been called to the statement in the "Evening Standard," that 250 ejectment decrees have been obtained against small tenants on the estates of several landlords at the current Oughterard Sessions; that, should these decrees be carried out, 2,000 people will be left homeless; and, whether the Government intend to propose any means for meeting this emergency?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, the statement in the newspaper is, I am glad to say, much beyond the mark. The clerk of the peace for the County Galway informs me that there were but 59 decrees obtained at the Oughterard Sessions affecting 445 persons. In one of these proceedings have been stayed under the 13th section of the Land Act.