§ MR. SULLIVAN () Westmeath, S.To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the police in the County Westmeath are visiting the farmers in that county who object to certain persons hunting over their land, and taking their names and addresses, and that Sergeant M'Donnell and another constable, on the 13th November, in the neighbourhood of Streamstown, threatened one of the farmers there who had poisoned his land; and will he say what authority they had for their action; and will he give directions to the constabulary to cease this practice.
213 (Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) The Question has reference, apparently, to some inquiries made by the sergeant named in the ordinary discharge of his duty, with the view of ascertaining whether intimidation had been used by a prominent member of a local organisation in the endeavour to prevent hunting. There is no foundation, otherwise, for the statements in the Question.