§ MR. BLANE (Armagh, S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If the Irish Government will cause the Land Sub-Commission to sit at an early date in Keady, County Armagh, to hear the applications listed a considerable time back for the fixing of fair rents; if Government are aware that many of those applicants are in arrears of rent; and, if the urgency of the cases would be considered by them?
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY (Colonel KING-HARMAN) (Kent, Isle of Thanet)(who replied) said: The Land Commissioners inform me that there will be a sitting of a Sub-Commission in Keady, County Armagh, in the month of June. The Commissioners state that if there are any cases of urgency—that is, where decrees in ejectment for non-payment of rent have been obtained—they will, in accordance with their usual practice, on the application of the parties, delegate their cases to the nearest Sub-Commission working in the adjoining district, so as to prevent the rights of the tenants in their holdings being lost by reason of the want of a fair rent being fixed in the meantime.