§ MR. WILLIAM ABRAHAM (Cork Co., N. E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (I) if his attention has been called to certain proceedings taken by the Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) against Mr. Michael Conway, Mourne Abbey, County Cork, to recover instalments of a loan, under the Land Law (Ireland) Act I881; (2) whether he is aware that the Commissioners have advertised a sale of the tenant's effects for the 28th inst., without giving him any notice whatever of their intention; and (3) if he will suggest to the Commissioners the advisability of postponing this sale, for the purpose of enabling Mr. Conway to pay up the instalments, without suffering the loss which a forced sale would entail?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI am informed that Mr. Conway is in arrear to the extent of five half-yearly instalments of the rent-charge payable in discharge of his loan. The fact is not correctly stated in the second paragraph, inasmuch as the borrower was informed on the 26th May last, before the issue of the advertisements, of the intended sale, which will be limited to the lands charged with the debt due to the Board of Works, and will not extend to any other effects belonging to the borrower. I see no reason to make the suggestion referred to in the third paragraph of the Question, and I may add that a sale which it was proposed to effect last year was postponed on the application of Conway, in order to enable him to carry out an arrangement which, however, he failed to do.