§ MR. T. W. RUSSELL (Tyrone, S.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether an application has been lodged with the
† See (4) Debates, cxlviii., 1317.589 Estates Commissioners by Lieutenant-General Thomas Henry Pakenham, of Langford Lodge, Crumlin, county Antrim, for an advance of £650 as the purchase price of a farm of land at Graigarogan, county Antrim, from which Martha O'Beirne was evicted in June, 1903, for non-payment of one and a half year's rent, and which she held at a rent fixed by the Irish Land Commission of £13; whether, seeing that the amount applied for would represent fifty years purchase of the said rent, will he say what the Estates Commissioners intend doing in reference to this application; and is he aware that the former tenant has offered to the landlord on several occasions for the purpose of redeeming the lands all rent due on the farm and all costs incurred by the landlord, and that the landlord has refused to accept the same.(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) An application for an advance of £650 for the purchase of the farm mentioned has been lodged by John G. Reid. An application for reinstatement in the farm as evicted tenant has been received from Martha O'Beirne. When the estate comes in due course before the Commissioners for consideration, the evicted tenant's claim will be fully inquired into.