§ MR. J. P. FARRELL (Longford, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state the number of the tenants whose tenancies were determined pursuant to section 7 of the Land Act in the county of Longford; how many of such tenants were wholly dispossessed and how many readmitted as caretakers; and will he undertake to introduce into his promised Land Bill a clause to suspend the operation of this section.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe number of tenant's served with Notices under Section 7, from 1887 down to the end of last year, was 2,062, of whom only 243 were actually evicted, or less than 18 per annum. In the remaining cases settlements were presumably arrived at, though there is no statistical information of the relative number restored as tenants or as caretakers. As already stated. I cannot by anticipation disclose the contents of the new Bill.