§ MR. MCKEAN (Monaghan, S.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that the agent for the estate of the late Mr. Pringle is also petty sessions clerk for the Carrickmacross district, and that occasionally while acting in his official capacity he also appears before the Petty Sessions Court as plaintiff in suits against tenants on the aforementioned estate; and whether, in the public interest, he will take such steps as will lead to the resignation on the part of the official in question of one of the positions which he now holds.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) I understand that the facts are substantially as stated, save that the petty sessions clerk appears not as plaintiff, but as a witness in the cases referred to. I am making further inquiry into this, matter.