HC Deb 26 February 1889 vol 333 cc383-4
MR. A. J. BALFOUR

Perhaps I may be permitted to correct and supplement something that dropped from me in my speech yesterday. In speaking of the county of Kerry I was interrupted by the hon. Member for Mayo, who asked what part of Kerry I was referring to. I am glad of the interruption, because I made a slight error which caused me to understate my case. In- stead of speaking of the county of Kerry, I should have spoken of the Kenmare Estate. The facts are these: On the estate of the Earl of Kenmare in Kerry, there occurred from the 1st of August, 1888, to the 14th of October, 1888, but one case of outrage of any description, and this was a threatening notice. The agitation alluded to began at the end of September, and from the 14th of October, 1888, to the 15th of December, 1888, there occurred 11 outrages on this estate. Of these 11 outrages, one was a threatening letter, three were cases of killing or mutilating animals, two of cattle stealing, three of moonlighting, one injury to property, and one incendiary fire.