§ MR. ROCHE (Galway, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners received, on November 5th, 1904, a petition signed by several of the tenants on the Mahon Ballydonlon Estate requesting to be relieved of the untenanted land which they had got upon the estate; and whether it was replied to.
§ MR. WALTER LONGA petition was received on the 6th November, 1904, asking the Commissioners to fix an equitable price on the lands of Ballydonlon, or to refuse their sanction to the sale, but the petitioners were informed that the advances had been made in April, 1904, and that the proceedings were closed.
§ MR. ROCHEOn whose authority did the right hon. Gentleman on a previous occasion say that no application had been received by the Commission?
§ MR. WALTER LONGI have not that Answer before me or in my mind.
§ MR. MACVEAGH (Down, S.)Did the right hon. Gentleman receive these two absolutely contradictory Answers from the same source?
§ MR. WALTER LONGI should not like to say they are contradictory until I have had an opportunity of examining them. The Commissioners have an enormous number of cases to deal with, and I have naturally to refer to them for information.