§ DR. AMBROSE (Mayo, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can state how many years the O'Donel Estate at Newport, country Mayo, has been in Chancery; how many applications for purchase have been made by the Congested Districts Board and the Estates Commissioners; who are the trustees of estate; and what is the cause of the delay in the sale of the estate to the Congested Districts Board or the Estates Commissioners.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) The petition for sale of this estate was filed in 1893. The Commissioners have made no offer to purchase, but the Congested Districts board have been in communication with the Land Judge in respect to the issue of a request under Section 77 of the Act of 1903. The matter will come before the Land Judge for consideration early next sittings.