§ MR. SLOANTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to a hurling match held on Sunday, 10th May last, in the townland of Lagan, near Keady, and to the fact that during the match a rope was placed across the public road, no person being allowed to pass without paying 3d., and that several persons refusing to pay were assaulted; and, if so, whether he can state on whose authority Sergeant Hughes permitted these proceedings without interference.
(Answered by Mr. Atkinson) I am informed that a rope was placed across the road on the occasion mentioned. The police are not aware that any assaults were committed. Sergeant Hughes acted on his own initiative. He has been instructed not to permit a recurrence of applied for by Samuel Burnett had been any similar obstruction of the public provisionally sanctioned, and that no road.