HC Deb 15 March 1889 vol 333 cc1787-8
MR. LANE (Cork Co., E.)

asked the Solicitor General for Ireland whether Mr. J. E. Blakeney was still a magistrate for the county of Cork; whether Mr. Blakeney's sole qualification for being appointed a magistrate for the County of Cork was the fact of having been appointed agent on the Ponsonby Estate; whether it is a fact that Mr. Blakeney owns no property, and never even rented a house within the county of Cork; whether he has long since been dismissed from the agency, and left the district and county of Cork; and, whether, under these circumstances, it is the intention of the Lord Chancellor to continue him in the Commission of the Peace for the county of Cork?

* MR. MADDEN

I understand that the gentleman referred to is no longer a Magistrate for the County Cork, as upon resigning the agency of the Ponsonby Estate he likewise resigned the Commission of the Peace, his connection with the county having ceased.