MR. MAC NEILL (Donegal, S.)asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he was aware that all the tenants on the property of Mr. Wybrants Olpherts in Glahercoon and Curransport, in the parish of Gweedore, had been served with ejectment processes, to be heard at Quarter Sessions, which would be held at Falcarragh on March 26; whether it was a fact that, owing to the failure of the potato crop, these tenants had no potato seed of any kind to crop the lands; and whether the Government would take any, and, if so, what steps to provide work for the people who were in want of food and money, and were threatened with eviction?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI understand that it is not the case that all the tenants on the to wnlands of the estate named have been served with ejectment processes to be heard at Quarter Sessions at Falcarragh, nor, as a matter of fact, are Quarter Sessions held there. But it is the case that some of these tenants have been summoned to Petty Sessions to give up possession of their holdings. It also appears that, in some instances, the tenants on these townlands are without 706 potato seed. It is not considered that any case can possibly arise which cannot be dealt with under the provisions of the ordinary Poor Law.