§ MR. W. A. MACDONALD (Queen's Co., Ossory)I beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland whether it is true that Mr. Robert Frazer has recently been appointed a Sub-Commissioner to fix fair rents; whether this is the same Mr. Frazer who formerly applied to have a fair rent fixed on a farm near Donaghmore which he held from the Dowager Lady Castletown, with regard to whom the Chairman of the Sub-Commission said—
We have had frequently Mr. Frazer, the tenant of this farm, before us as a valuer, generally for landlords, and certainly, if we took his valuations as a standard to base the value of this land on, we should be obliged to increase instead of decrease the rent. However, we give him the benefit of our own estimation of its value and reduce the rent. We must say we consider this the worst managed farm we have come across for a long time:and whether ho can state what Mr. Frazer's qualifications are for the office to which 1M; has been appointed?
§ MR. MADDENThe Land Commissioners request that this question may be deferred until Thursday next, in order that they may make the necessary inquiries.