MR. FIELDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether he is aware of the fact that many sheep in the vicinity of Dublin, and over the country generally, have been worried by dogs, thereby causing great loss and inconvenience; and whether instructions will be issued to the Metropolitan Police and to the Constabulary to endeavour to prevent its continuance?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURCases of the kind have occurred, though upon the information at present before me I cannot say that the number of sheep worried by dogs has, of late, been abnormal. In the Dublin Police District the cases have been traced to two or three dogs, which were destroyed. The attention of the police has been frequently drawn to this class of case, and they are fully alive to the importance of the matter.