§ DR. ROBERT AMBROSE (Mayo, W.)To ask the President of the Board of Trade, whether he is aware that the owner of Rostock Castle, county Mayo, is prosecuting migratory labourers for gathering seaweed on the foreshore of the Stoney Estate, near Mallaranny, county Mayo, and that this estate has been sold by the owner to the Congested Districts Board, and that, during the negotiations for purchase, the Congested Districts Board refused to entertain his title to the foreshore, he being unable to produce any title: And, seeing that these rights belong to the Crown, will he, in order to protect these people who are harvesting in England and Scotland at 208 present, see that the Crown will be represented at the trial at the next Quarter Sessions in Castlebar, and that its rights are finally asserted.
(Answered by Mr. Gerald Balfour.) I understand that the statements in the first paragraph of the hon. Member's Question are generally correct. The Board of Trade will be represented at the trial at Castlebar on the 27th instant.