MR. FIELDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether complete returns of the estates in the Land Judges' Court to which the 40th section of the Land Act, 1896, applies have been published; and, if not, will be explain why; and whether he can give any assurance that the work in arrears will be expedited.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURThree returns of estates over which receivers have been appointed, prepared in relation to proceedings under the enactment referred to, were laid on the Table of the House in May, 1897, and March, 1898. A further return on the subject will, it is expected, be ready for presentation early next year.