§ COLONEL NOLAN (Galway, N.)asked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Whether the Returning Officer was correct in holding bad a nomination paper in the am Union, in an election for an Electoral Guardian, because the nominator had signed himself Patrick O'Neill, his name on the rate book being Patrick Neill, but he being generally known by the former designation; and, if a nomination paper should be held bad in another Electoral Division of the same Union, because the date was written 547 the 2nd day of February, 1887, instead of the 2nd day of March, 1887?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. HOLMES) (Dublin University), in reply, said, he had been informed that the objections had been brought before the Local Government Board based upon the matters to which the Question referred, and these objections were being investigated. The Local Government Board was, by Act of Parliament, the authority for deciding questions of this character; and he would not feel himself at liberty to offer any opinion on the matter of law.