§ MR. MACALEESE (Monaghan, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that the agent for Lord Dartrey's estate, county Monaghan, applied for and was granted a transfer of a spirit licence at the Rockcorry Petty Sessions on Thursday last, although the agent is a magistrate for the district in which he obtained the transfer in his own name; and can he state what are the circumstances which led to this application for the licence, and who were the magistrates who granted the licence, and whether he proposes to take any steps in the matter.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURMr. Leslie, a justice of the peace for the district of Rockcorry and agent of Lord Dartrey, obtained the transfer, until the next quarter sessions, of licensed premises which he had purchased from the executors of a deceased publican, a tenant on the estate mentioned. The justices who granted the transfer were Messrs. Henry and McCabe, and there seems to be nothing in the matter calling for any intervention on the part of the Government.
§ MR. MACALEESEWas Mr. Leslie an acting justice of the peace at the time he held the licence?
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURI must ask for notice.