§ MR. WILLIAM ABRAHAM (Cork County, N.E.)I beg to ask Mr. Attorney-General for Ireland whether the attention of the Estates Commissioners has been called to the circumstances connected with the farm forming the estate of Palms Spread Morgan, who is at present confined as a lunatic, and from which farm James J. Greene was evicted in 1889; and whether, seeing that this holding is now in the occupation of Captain Jonathan Morgan, brother and administrator of the owner, the Commissioners, having regard to his position as remainder man, will refuse to sanction an advance to Captain Jonathan Morgan to enable him to purchase this estate to which he is the heir in succession.
§ MR. ATKINSONThe hon. Member has been in correspondence with the Commissioners in this matter. The property is under the control of the Court of Chancery, and an offer made by Captain Morgan to purchase the holding 935 in question was accepted by the Land Judge in July last. The Commissioners, under the circumstances, have no authority to intervene, but in the event of their acquiring untenanted land in the neighbourhood the application of James Greene will be further considered.