§ MR. DELANY (Queen's County, Ossory)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether an application for reinstatement has been made to the Estates Commissioners on behalf of the representative of the late Laurence M'Evoy, who was evicted from his farm at Johnsgrove, Mountmellick, Queen's County, in 1882, for non-payment of one-and-a-half year's rent, the yearly rent being £232; and whether, seeing that the farm has been since let for £110 a year, and that the present occupier, Mrs. Neale, is willing to surrender the holding under conditions, the Estates Commissioners will open negotiations with Mrs. Neale with the object of 31 restoring the evicted tenant's representative to the holding.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Estates Commissioners have referred the application in question to their inspector for inquiry, and until his report has been received they are unable to say what action they may take in the case.