§ DR. AMBROSETo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can state the price paid by the Congested Districts Board to Mr. Canning, of Ballyvary, near Castlebar, county Mayo, for his grazing farm at Keelogues; what was his interest therein; what was the date of the lease or agreement, if any; has the Board purchased from the same gentleman a grazing farm at Windsor, near Castlebar; if so, what was the price paid to him for it, and what was Mr. Canning's interest in the Windsor farm.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Congested Districts Board paid £500 for Mr. Canning's interest in the farm of Lisaniska, near Keelogues, on the Bingham Estate. Mr. Canning held under a lease of twenty-one years from 1st November, 1888. The Board have 694 not purchased any other farm from Mr. Canning.