§ MR. CHANCE (Kilkenny, S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the sitting of the Sub-Commissioners under "The Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881," at Kilkenny has been postponed from a date before to a date after the 25th March next; whether, in consequence of such postponement, tenants who have applied to have fair rents fixed will become liable to the payment of a half-year's rent, from the 25th March next, at a rate which the said Sub-Commissioners' decisions may show to be unjust and excessive; and, whether steps will be taken to have the sittings of the Sub-Commissioners held before the above date?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH) (Bristol, W.)The Land Commissioners inform me that the sitting of the Sub-Commission at Kilkenny is fixed for a date prior to the 25th of March—namely, the 15th of March—and that there is no intention of postponing it.