§ MR. T. M. HEALYI beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that, when the late Mr. O'Reilly Dease left his property to the Crown, the bailiff on the Louth Estate, Thomas Conachey, was continued in office for ten years until the lands were sold to the tenants in 1897; that Conachey several times applied for remuneration, and got no reply; and that the agent of the estate then applied for him to the Treasury Remembrance, and was refused; and, whether, as the whole of Mr. Dease's wealth went towards the discharge of the National Debt, he will provide some payment for the estate bailiff.
§ SIR M. HICKS BEACHThe facts are correctly stated in the question, except as regards the word "remuneration." What Mr. Conachey asked for, and the Treasury Remembrance refused, was a "pension or gratuity for past services." Mr. Conachey had been employed as rent Warner by Mr. O'Reilly Dease at a salary of £7 10s. a year, and, during the interval between Mr. O'Reilly Dease's death and the sale of the estate to the tenants, he was kept on to perform the same duties at the same salary. I cannot think that this gives him any claim to a "pension or gratuity" from the Crown.
§ MR. T. M. HEALYWill the Crown pay him for the time he was in their employment?
§ SIR M. HICKS BEACHYes, Sir.