§ MR. KILBRIDEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that it was the practice, under the Land Purchase Acts of 1891 and 1896, to publish in the Dublin Gazette from week to week the particulars of applications for advances and the decisions of the Land Commission in reference thereto, and that these particulars stated what advances were applied for, what advances were sanctioned, what advances were refused, the rents that were being sold, and the price paid for them; if so, will he say whether this procedure is being followed with regard to all sales under the Land Purchase Act of 1903; and, if not, will he state what caused the departure fro m precedent.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThese weekly schedules still continue to be published in the Gazette in pursuance of Section 32 of the Act of 1891. The publication of the proceedings of the Estates Commissioners is provided for in Section 23 (14) of the Act of 1903, and, as I have already stated, a Return will shortly be laid on the Table of the House containing a variety of information in respect of sales to, or sanctioned by, the Commissioners.