§ MR. M. AUSTIN (Limerick, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that an emergency man, named Robert Walsh, was only bound to the peace at the Abbeyfeale, County Limerick, Petty Sessions, held last month, for having brandished a revolver on the public road at Kilconlea, in said county, and threatened the life of a farmer named Dennis O'Donnell; whether he is aware that the said Robert Walsh was convicted at the last Spring Assizes in Limerick City of a felony, and on being released was granted a licence to carry arms: whether he is aware that Mr. J. H. Dalton, Magistrate, agent of the property on which the emergency man is employed, adjudicated on the case at the Potty Sessions Court; whether, in the interest of maintaining peace and preserving life in the district, Robert Walsh will be deprived of his licence without delay; and will the attention of the Lord Chancellor be directed to the action of Mr. Dalton?
MR. J. MORLEYThe facts are correctly stated in the first two paragraphs, except that the licence to carry firearms was granted to Walsh prior to his conviction at the Limerick Spring Assizes of 1893. Two Magistrates, of whom Mr. Dalton was one, adjudicated 713 at Petty Sessions in the ease referred to in the first paragraph, and it is reported to me that Mr. Dalton is not agent of the property on which Walsh was employed. His arms licence was revoked by an Order of the Lord Lieutenant on the 25th ultimo.
§ MR. M. AUSTINIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that Mr. Dalton figured as plaintiff in the eviction proceedings that took place?