§ MR. P. A. M'HUGHI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that a receiver named Hewson, on the Montgomery estate, county Leitrim, recently instructed a bailiff named Hetherington to inform Mrs. O'Donnell, the wife of an evicted tenant now undergoing an unlimited term of imprisonment for alleged contempt of court, that if she does not leave the evicted farm the Land Judge will imprison her; and is a receiver authorised in such a case to use as a threat the anticipated action of a judge.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURMr. Hewson instructed the bailiff to inform the wife of the evicted tenant that unless she gave up possession of the holding the judge would make an order in her case also. The second paragraph does not call for a reply from me; the receiver is in no way under 586 the jurisdiction of the Executive Government.