§ MR. KENNYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If the police hut at Kilmoon, county Clare, is stationed there for the protection of the person who took an evicted farm in that place; if ho is aware that Lane, the person who is stated to have taken the farm, lives five miles away, and if it is true that he also has surrendered the farm; and, since there has been no violence nor threat of violence in the locality for a very considerable time, and that a police barrack is only about a mile distant, whether the police hut will be finally removed?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANLane has not surrendered the farm, and I am informed that he intends to reside near it. He has placed stock on it, and when doing so he was threatened. The police are considered necessary to prevent violence, and will not be removed at present. Their cost is not charged to the locality. The nearest permanent police barrack is nearly three miles distant—not one, as stated in the Question.