§ MR. FRASER-MACKINTOSH(for Dr. MACDONALD) (ROSS and Cromarty)asked the Lord Advocate, Whether the Crofter Commissioner, Mr. Macintyre, at various rural and urban telegraph offices in the counties of Ross, Inverness, and Sutherland, gave orders 252 that all telegrams in favour of Mr. Macintyre's appointment were to be despatched free of expense to the senders; whether Mr. William Duncan, solicitor, of Dingwall, is an applicant for the Secretaryship of the Crofters' Commission; and, whether, in his professional capacity, this gentleman has been repeatedly concerned in evictions, and is so at the present moment?
§ THE COMPTROLLER OF THE HOUSEHOLD (Mr. MARJORIBANKS) (Berwickshire)(who replied) said: I regret that the Lord Advocate is absent in Scotland. In his absence I have to say that this and the following Questions have very recently been put upon the Paper. The information required has been asked for, but has not yet reached the Scottish Office. With regard to Mr. William Duncan, there is no information at the Scottish Office that would lead to the inference suggested.