§ MR. SMITH-BARRY (Hunts, Huntingdon)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland a Question of which I have given him private notice, namely, whether it is true, as reported in The Times of to-day, that the Congested Districts Board have entered into an agreement for the purchase of the Dillon estate, in County Mayo, occupied by 4,000 tenants; and, whether the estate is situated within or without the existing agrarian agitation in Mayo.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURIt is true. The Congested Districts Board have entered into an agreement to purchase the Dillon estates in counties Mayo and Roscommon. I am not aware of any agitation in connection with any part of the Dillon estates.