§ MR. DELANY (Queen's County, Ossory)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that agreements to purchase their holdings have been signed by the tenants on the Cappaloughlin, Queen's County, estate of the Endowed Board of Commissioners on terms of twenty-three and twenty-five years' purchase, including one year's rent to November last, turf banks and cutaway bog also included, and that the tenants have since been informed by the agent, Mr. Franks, that they will be required to pay in addition for the turbary rights, in consequence of which a minority of the tenants have withdrawn from the sale; 177 and will he see that the Estates Commissioners shall inquire into this matter before sanctioning the sale.
THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. BRYCE, Aberdeen, S.)The Estates Commissioners inform me that they are unable to identify the estate referred to as one in which proceedings for sale have been instituted before them. If the estate should come before them, they will make enquiries into the facts alleged in the Question.
§ MR. KILBRIDE (Kildare, S.)Will the right hon. Gentleman inform the Estates Commis-ioners that the terms agreed on are six or seven years' purchase in advance of the average terms under the Act.
MR. BRYCEI am willing to send to the Commissioners any information which the hon. Member thinks should be Conveyed to them.