HC Deb 31 October 1882 vol 274 cc462-3
MR. REDMOND

asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether he can state the number of applications for licences to carry arms which have been made under the Arms Act in the county of Wexford, and the proportion refused by the licensing authority; and, whether the district of Wex- ford is and has been almost entirely free from crimes of violence?

MR. TREVELYAN

Sir, in the County Wexford the number of applications for licences to carry arms has been about 5,611, and in about 30 of these cases licences had been refused. There have been but few crimes of violence recently committed in the county, and I feel pleasure in saying so. The district has not, however, been entirely free from crime. I find from the Returns presented to Parliament that there have been 93 outrages reported to the Constabulary Office up to the 30th of September this year, 47 of these being agrarian outrages.

MR. REDMOND

Does that number include threatening letters?

MR. TREVELYAN

It includes threatening letters; 33 of the number I have mentioned are offences against property—incendiary offences.

MR. HEALY

asked whether it was not the fact that Wexford was the only county in the South of Ireland that was not proclaimed under the Crimes Act?

[No reply was given to the Question.]