§ MR. WOODI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if his attention has been called to applications made to the Downpatrick Rural District Council for labourers' cottages in the district of Ardglass; and will be explain the cause of delay in the erection of these cottages.
§ MR. WYNDHAMIn April the Local Government Board made a Provisional Order authorising the erection of seventeen cottages in the Downpatrick rural district, including three in the Division of Ardglass. The Order became absolute in July. Negotations between the Council and the owners and occupiers in respect to the compensation payable to the latter for their interests in the lands to be acquired have broken down in many cases, and an application is about to be made to the Board to appoint an arbitrator.