§ MR. MACALEESEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he can give any information regarding the alleged handing over of the vacant farm of a Mrs. M'Gonnell, of Knocknasane, county Monaghan, to an emergency man named Matson; and is he aware that Mrs. M'Gonnell, whose health was shaken by the death of her husband, went to Belfast, for hospital treatment, and on her return after the lapse of some months found that, without any legal process whatever, her farm had been given to Matson; if so. will he see if anything can be done to have Mrs. M'Gonnell restored to her farm?
§ MR. ATKINSONIt is not the fact that the farm in question has been 479 handed over to an emergency man. Mrs. M'Gonnell was evicted in March, 1895, under legal process, for non-payment of seven years' rent, amounting to J42. She has not since, I understand, been in occupation. She was offered to be reinstated on payment of £12, but this offer she declined. The Government do not propose to take any action in the direction suggested.