§ MR. MACVEAGHI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether, in view of the recent police inquiries in the district, he can state if, in the four town-lands along the road leading from Moy to the station at Trew and Moy, the population consists of thirty-four Catholic families, including 134 persons, and fifteen families, including fifty-four persons, of all other denominations; whether he is aware that on 15th August, 1898, two Nationalist bands proceeded by this route and that no disturbance occurred; whether he can state on what grounds the road has been closed against processions since that date; and whether, in view of the inconvenience to which some of the contingents will otherwise he put on 15th August, he will give Instructions to have the road open on that date.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThere are ten town-lands between Moy and the station known as Trew and Moy. The proportion of Catholics to persons of other religious denominations in this area is as one to five. The proportion is reversed in two other townlands which adjoin the road, but in the aggregate the Catholics are in a minority. One Nationalist hand proceeded to the station in August, 1898. But the intention to do so was concealed, and a large hostile crowd assembled at Trew in the evening. The band returned, however, by road from Dungannon. With this exception, I understand that no Nationalist demonstration has either entrained or detrained at Trew during the past forty-five years. The hon. Member is doubtless aware of the melancholy fatality that occurred in a railway train at this station in 1875. In reply to the concluding inquiry, I have nothing 281 to add to my statement in answer to his previous Question of Monday last.†