§ MR. LUNDONI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland can he say what progress has been made as to the sale and purchase between Colonel Gascoigne, owner of the town of Kilfinane, county Limerick, and the town tenants thereon; has the landlord, now that he is preparing to sell to the rural tenants, made any overtures of sale to the town tenants, seeing that the entire estate is one which comes within the scope of the Land Purchase Act of 1903; has he made any offer of sale of the estate to the Estates Commissioners; and can he say what are the prospects of the tenants becoming real owners of their own houses.
§ MR. WALTER LONGProceedings for the sale of the Gascoigne Estate were 626 instituted before the Commissioners on March 28th last, but the town tenants are not included in those proceedings. The Commissioners have no information upon the remaining points raised in the Question.