§ CAPTAIN DONELANI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that,, although the tenants on the estate of the representatives of the late Admiral Hay, situated at Ballycrenane, Castlemartyr, county Cork, entered into an agreement, to purchase their holdings so far back as May, 1891, the arrangement has not yet been carried out; and whether he can state the cause of delay and, approximately, when the transaction will be completed?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThe agreements for purchase on the estate referred to in the Question were lodged in the month of March, 1895, and the applications for advances were sanctioned in the same year. Considerable difficulties arose in connection with the vendors' title owing to the death of the vendors. The vesting orders have, however, now been settled, and will be executed as soon as evidence is produced that the purchasers are still alive and in occupation of their holdings.