§ MR. JOHN O'DONNELL (Mayo, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state how long the estate known as Brownhall Estate, near the town of Balla, in the barony of Clanmorris, County Mayo, has been in the Land Judge's Court; and whether, seeing that the tenants on this estate signed agreements to purchase their holdings in 1899, he will explain why the solicitor for the receiver is still pressing the tenants for their old rents immediately the running half gale becomes due; why this solicitor has demanded costs of said processes, although the rents were sent on before they were served; and why the sale of the estate has not been completed.
§ MR. JOHN O'DONNELLI beg also to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that in 1900 the solicitor to the mortgagees of the estate known as the Brownhall Estate, in the barony of Clanmorris, County Mayo, in reply to a communication from one of the tenants on that estate, informed him that everything was ready for completing the sale and bringing it before the Court of Chancery the following week, and that a similar reply has been given to tenants in 1901 and 1902; and whether he will take steps to expedite the final settlement of the case of these tenants.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe information before me does not enable me to reply to all the inquires in these two Questions. I am informed, however, that considerable delay was occasioned in carrying out the sale by objections filed by the tenants. They have now been disposed of, and it is hoped that within a fortnight the tenants' applications for advances, as well as the rental, will be lodged in the Land Commission.