§ MR. J. P. FARRELLI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether any steps have been or are about being taken by the Estates Commissioners for the purchase of the Collum Minors Estate, Newtown Cashel, county Longford; and, if so, will care be taken that of the fifteen evicted tenants whoso derelict farms are on this property none will be exempted from reinstatement in their old holdings.
MR. BRYCEThe Estates Commissioners inform me that no proceedings for the sale of the estate mentioned have been instituted before them. The application, received from the evicted tenants will be inquired into and dealt with in due course.