§ MR. PATRICK M'HUGH (Leitrim, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that a Land Sub-Commission sat in Manorhamilton in March and disposed of 57 cases, but that up to the present no decision has been given in any of these cases; and when will the decisions in these cases be given?
§ The HON. MEMBER also asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, if he were aware that a large 510 number of originating notices were served in the Manorhamilton district of county Leitrim so far back as November which have not yet been dealt with; can he state when these cases will be dealt with; and will he see that no unnecessary delay occurs?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThe present Manorhamilton list, the hearing of which was commenced on the 9th of March last, contained all cases from that Union in which applications to fix fair rents were received prior to the 1st day of December 1896. 57 of these cases have been heard at Manorhamilton, but the lay Assistant Commissioners have not yet been able to complete the inspection of all these holdings. The inspection is being proceeded with as rapidly as is possible, and judgments will be given by the Sub-Commission in the cases referred to on the earliest possible opportunity.