§ MR. WEBB (Waterford, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland what is the cause of the delay on the part of the Land Commission in completing the sale to the Rev. R. J. Casey of a portion of the property in the hands of the Trustees of the Duke of St. Albans, in the County of Waterford, all the necessary forms having by intending purchaser been completed in January 1892; and will the purchaser have any claim as against the present holder for dilapidations now believed to be taking place?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER (Mr. BRYCE, Aberdeen, S.) (for Mr. J. MORLEY)The Land Commission report that there has been no delay on their part in completing the sale referred to. The advance applied for was provisionally sanctioned in 1892, but the solicitors for the vendor not having lodged an abstract of title to the estate within the prescribed time they were called upon in November last to explain the delay, with the result that the abstract was lodged on the 12th December. As regards the second paragraph, I am informed that the matter is one in which it is considered that the purchaser must act on the advice of his own legal adviser.