§ MR. TULLY (Leitrim, S.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners can state the total amount offered by them to the vendor of the King-Harman Estate and accepted for the rural portion of the estate, and the amount of the bonus on same; and whether they can state the total amount asked by the vendor and the total amount offered by them for the town portion of the estate, and the amount of the bonus on same.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) The amount of the purchase money of the rural portion of this estate, the purchase of 251 which has been completed, is £391,521. The Commissioners have agreed to purchase a portion of the town holdings in actual possession of tenants for £15,835. The bonus in each case amounts to 12 per cent, of the purchase money. I must decline to give information as to negotiations which have not been completed.