§ MR. KENDAL O'BRIEN (Tipperary, Mid)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that Daniel Moran, of Cappawhite, county Tipperary, a tenant on the estate of Thomas Dowling, which is in the Land Judge's Court for sale, offered twenty years purchase of his rent for his holding, which consists of a farm of about ten acres, of which he is a judicial tenant, and the same number of years purchase for his house and premises in Cappawhite, of which he is a yearly tenant; that his offer has been refused, and proceedings threatened by writ for the recovery of arrears of rent; and that it is proposed to sell the agricultural portion of the estate to the tenants, and the portion forming the village of Cappawhite to the incumbrancer; and, if so, whether the Estates Commissioners will, seeing that the tenants in the village live chiefly by farming the agricultural portion of their holdings, refuse their sanction to the proposed sale until an offer of sale is made of the whole estate to the tenants.
§ MR. KENDAL O'BRIENI beg also to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been drawn to the proceedings in the Land Judge's Court in the matter of the estate of Thomas Dowling, and to the order made by the Judge on the application of the solicitor having carriage, whereby the offer of the agricultural tenants to purchase their holdings at twenty-and-a-half years purchase was accepted, and the request that had been issued to the Estates Commissioners to inspect the whole estate (part being held by agricultural tenants and part consisting of the village of Cappawhite) was ordered to be withdrawn, on the ground that the incumbrancer represented by the solicitor having carriage of the sale was disposed to purchase the village himself; and 965 whether, in view of the fact that the greater number of the tenants in the village are also tenants on the agricultural portion of the estate, and of the effect upon these tenants of the withdrawal of the whole estate from the jurisdiction of the Estates Commissioners and splitting up the same for sale, the Estates Commissioners will, on the application of the tenants of the village of Cappawhite, order an inspection of it, with a view to its purchase and resale to the tenants.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe Estates Commissioners understand that the Dowling Estate, for sale in the Land Judge's Court, consists partly of agricultural holdings and partly of the village of Cappawhite. They also understand that all the agricultural tenants, except Daniel Moran, have agreed to purchase their holdings on terms which the solicitor having carriage is prepared to recommend for acceptance to the Land Judge. Under these circumstances the Estates Commissioners considered that there was nothing to be gained by the issue of a request which could apply only to the village of Cappawhite, and accordingly withdrew the request.