§ MR. MACALEESEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, if the police of Castleshane have made any report to the effect that a man named Francis M'Adam, on Thursday the 9th of the present month, while engaged in driving his cattle along the road to a portion of his farm, received several pellets of shot in his head and face, in consequence of a gamekeeper firing at a dog within a few yards of the road, and that the gamekeeper threatened to shoot the caretaker of the dog; and, will he issue any instructions for the exercise of greater caution in discharge of firearms?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThe fads appear to be substantially as stated. It appears that at the time of the occurrence the gamekeeper and M'Adam were on different sides of a thick hedge, and that the gamekeeper in firing at the dog, which was in pursuit of a rabbit, did not see. M'Adam. The injuries to the latter were very slight and both he and the gamekeeper admit that they were accidentally inflicted.