§ MR. FETHERSTONHAUGH (Fermanagh, N.)To ask Mr. Attorney-General for Ireland whether he can state who are the trustees of the fund of £ 10,000 given by Mr. Bourke Cochran for the benefit of Sligo, his native place; whether the trust being for a public object is one which, as Attorney-General, it would come within his duty to supervise; and whether, as it appears that the entire trust fund has been lost, he will take any steps to have an investigation of the application of the money by the trustees.
(Answered by Mr. Cherry.) I am not aware that there are, or ever were, any trustees of the sum mentioned in the Question, or that a deed of trust of any kind was executed by Mr. Bourke Cochran, who appears merely to have-invested the sum of £10,000 in an industry connected with the town of Sligo, with the laudable object of benefiting his native place. It is no part of my duty to supervise that gentleman's investments, nor have I any right to inquire into them with a view to ascertaining whether they have been remunerative or not.