§ MR. NOLAN) (Louth, N.asked the Solicitor General for Ireland whether it was a fact that a number of applications to have a fair rent fixed were listed by tenants on the estate of Colonel Fortescue, in the parish and county of Louth in 1887, and remain unheard; and, whether a number of evictions were now threatened on this estate; and, if so, whether he can do anything to hasten the hearing of the cases, and to suspend evictions in the meantime?
§ MR. MADDENThe Land Commissioners report that the number of the applications to have fair rents fixed on the estate of Colonel Fortescue is 12. A Sub-Commission commenced its sittings in County Louth last September, and a new list of cases from that county will be issued in a week or two. It appears that two evictions are pending on the estate, but in one of these cases the tenants actually have a judicial rent which was fixed in 1882, and in the other the tenant holds under a reduced rent agreed upon between him and the landlord.