§ MR. FINUCANE (Limerick, E.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the Registrars of the Land Sub - Commission Courts communicate with the land agents, announcing the day on which the Commissioners will go to value the farms; and, whether complaints have reached him that they have refused to give similar information to the tenant, and that, as a result, farms have been often valued in the absence of the occupier; and, if so, will he communicate with the Land Commission, and request that equal facilities be given to both occupier and owner, so that both may be present at valuations of land?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.)The Land Commissioners inform me that the instructions issued by them to the Registrars of Sub-Commissions are distinct as to their duty to give notice to both tenants and landlords. The Commissioners do not believe that any Registrar ever refused to give information or notice to either tenant or landlord. They have never heard of such refusal, and no complaint has over reached them to that effect. The Commissioners have always exercised the greatest possible care that equal facilities shall be given to both occupiers and owners.
§ MR. FINUCANEsaid, he had personal knowledge of such a case which had come under his notice within the past three weeks, and he was prepared to give the name of the Registrar who showed this partiality.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURNo doubt, if the hon. Gentleman will communicate the fact to the Land Commissioners, with the necessary evidence, they will take steps to have it remedied.