§ MR. KNOXI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether he has received any reports as to the acute distress prevailing in those parts of the County Cavan which are within the Bawnboy and Enniskillen Unions; and, whether he will cause special enquiry to be made?
MR. J. MORLEYThe Enniskillen Board of Guardians, on the 29th January, adopted a Resolution alleging the existence of distress in parts of the Union, and the Local Government Board's Inspector has been directed to visit the district and report as to the facts. In the poorest parts of the Bawnboy Union—namely, the electoral divisions of Benbrack and Templeport, it is considered that a number of the small landholders may require assistance towards the end of March, or beginning of April, in consequence of the partial failure of the potato crop, and it will probably be necessary to open relief works for the relief of these people about that time.