§ SIR JOHN COLOMB (Great Yarmouth)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, if he could state to the House the number of holdings in Ireland 486 let as pasture, and of a rateable value exceeding £50 and not exceeding £100?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThere are no statistics available that would enable me to state the number of pasture holdings in Ireland, but it appears from a Return which was published in. 1870 showing the tenure by which agricultural holdings were held at that time, that the number of agricultural holdings of £50 rating and under £100, not in occupation of proprietors, was 22,728. This Return was presented to Parliament in 1870. (C. 32.) I may add that the term "agricultural" hero includes the term "pastoral."