§ MR. J. KELLYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he has seen the statement in the Dublin Express newspaper of the 6th instant, that the house of a bog ranger named Donellan, near Scariff, was attacked by moonlighters on the 5th instant, and that some of the shots fired by them wounded Donellan's son; and whether any arrests have been made in connection with the outrage?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe Constabulary Authorities report that it is the case that at about 12 midnight on the 5th instant, John Donnellan's house was fired into, two revolver bullets entering and wounding his son. Donnellan is not a bog ranger, but works for a man who had taken part of a bog which some tenants expected to have kept for themselves. No arrests up to the present have been made.
§ MR. COX (Clare, E.)I wish to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether, in view of his own statement a short time ago that 168 extra police were employed in the county, at a cost for the year ending 31st March, of £5,603, he will now think well to remove these extra police, who are useless?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI do not think the extra police are useless.