§ MR. WILLIAM ABRAHAM (Cork County, N.E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners have received applications for reinstatement from David Church, Ballina-mona, on the Ware Estate, and Michael O'Sullivan, Ballintlea, on the Coote Estate, county Cork; and if these applications will be inquired into by the local inspector now operating in that county.
§ THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. CHERRY,) (for Mr. Bryce) Liverpool ExchangeThe Answer to both parts of the Question is in the affirmative.
§ MR. WILLIAM ABRAHAMI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners have received a communication from Mr. John Pyne, tenant on the Kingston Estate, county Cork, to the effect that he was forced to sign an agreement to buy his holding at 26¼ years purchase by the service of a writ; 707 that since then he has had a second term rent fixed by the Land Commission and that the annual instalments, payable under the purchase agreement obtained under duress, would amount to 5 per cent, more than the judicial rent; and if a full inquiry will be made into these allegations when the estate is being inspected.
§ MR. CHERRYThe Estates Commissioners inform me that they cannot trace the receipt of the communication referred to and that they have no knowledge of any duress in the case. The matter will, however, be fully inquired into by the inspector who has been directed to inspect and report upon the estate.