§ MR. H. CAMPBELL (Fermanagh, S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether he is aware that members of the Castlewellan Conservative Flute Band, after leaving Rathfriland on Saturday the 28th August last, fired off revolvers on the county road convenient to Rathfriland; whether a bullet from one of these revolvers 333 was fired into a field in which a woman named Downey was milking; whether the illegal conduct of the party was reported to the police at Rathfriland, and on what date; whether several shots were fired close to the house of Patrick Rafferty, of Letalian, his son standing in the door at the time; whether a man named M'Cornish, of Dromena, complained that the same party fired deliberately at him, and that shots were also fired close to several persons who were travelling on the public road at Dromena; and, what action do the authorities intend to adopt with reference to these outrages?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. HOLMES) (Dublin University)(who replied) said, the information he had received in reference to the transaction referred to in the Question, as well as to that of the hon. Member for Mid Cork (Dr. Tanner), had led him to direct a prosecution. As that prosecution would take place in due course, whilst it was pending it would be obviously improper for him to discuss the matter further.