§ MR. MAGUIRE (Clare, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he will explain why the Lord Lieutenant has declined to give instructions to have returned to Patrick McMahon, a farmer, residing in Carrowmore South (Derryard), near the village of Doonbeg, in the County of Clare, a single-barrelled gun, taken from him by the police in August, 1888, although the local police sergeant, Mr. Benjamin Cox, J.P., and Mr. Harper, R.M., are ready, from their personal knowledge of McMahon, to testify as to his character?
*MR. J. MORLEYI am causing a communication to be addressed to the hon. Member, from which he will find that the detention of Mr. McMahon's gun was not due to any suspicion in respect to his character, but merely arises out of an ordinary police duty.