§ MR. LALOR (Queen's County, Leix)asked the Solicitor General for Ireland, in view of the fact that in the Abbeylaix Union many hundreds of originating notices to fix fair rents, which were served in September and October 1887 under the Act of that year, have not yet been heard, and in view of the fact that many landlords are still exacting the old rents can he say when the Sub-Commissioners will sit in that Union to hear these cases?
§ *MR. MADDENThe Land Commissioners inform me that a Sub-Commission sat in the Abbeyleix Union in September last, at which sitting nearly one hundred of the cases in which notices were received from 22nd August, 1887, were dispased of. The total number of cases unheard in the Uuion at the present date, including those not disposed of at that sitting, is 352. The Commissioners are at present unable to fix the date of the next sitting, having regard to the claims of other districts.