§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If he will cause inquiry to be made into the circumstances under which Mr. Bor, clerk of the union and returning officer for the Esker Division of the Edenderry Union, failed to send a voting paper to one Luke Dunne, and afterwards, at the casting up of the votes, rejected the voting paper of Dunne, on the ground that he had not applied for it on the 20th March; whether, in fact, Dunne applied on the 19th March at the workhouse for the voting paper in question, and filled it up under the direction of Mr. Bor himself, to whom he then and there delivered it; and, whether the Local Government Board have already had cause to complain of the conduct of this officer in similar matters?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANIt appears the clerk made a mistake in allowing Dunne to vote on the wrong day, and on an objection being made to the vote on this ground, he felt himself compelled to disallow it; but this did not affect the result of the election. The Local Government Board had some reason to complain of the manner in which this clerk discharged his duties last year; but this proceedings have been more satisfactory at the recent election.