§ MR. DELANY (Queen's County, Ossory)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the majority of the tenancies upon the Reary estate of Sir Algernon Coote, Queen's County, are non-judicial, and that the price agreed upon between landlord and tenant is twenty-six and a quarter years purchase of existing rents, and can he say if those holdings have been inspected for value; and, if so, what decision the Estates Commissioners have arrived at in the case.
1302 (Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Estates Commissioners inform me that the holdings on the estate referred to in the Question have not yet been inspected. The question as to security for the advances applied for in the non-judicial cases will be fully considered when the inspection takes place. The average number of years purchase on rents is rather less than twenty-four.