§ MR. LUNDON (Limerick, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland can he say whether in the sale of the estate of the Earl of Dunraven to his tenants around Adare and Croom, county Limerick, the case of Mr. George Spearing, of Beabus, has yet, as promised some time ago, been inquired into; and will the Estates Commissioners send an inspector to report on the treatment to which Mr. Spearing has been subjected so that he may be able to purchase with the other tenants.
MR. BRYCEThe Estates Commissioners inform me that the holding of the tenant referred to in the Question was duly inspected on their behalf, and the purchase money was fixed at £842. The tenant, however, refused to sign an undertaking to purchase at that price, and his case with others is at present under the Commissioners' consideration with the object of determining whether these tenants should not be brought into the sale under Section 19 of the Act.