§ MR. FLYNN (Cork County, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners have any information as to the proposed sale of the Long-field estate, Ballyclough, near Mallow; and whether, in view of the fact that the landlord, Mr. R. E. Longfield, retains in his own hands the evicted farm of a man Lehane, the Estates Commissioners will decline to sanction the purchase agreement unless Denis Lehane, son of the evicted tenant, is reinstated on the lands now let to graziers.
MR. BRYCEThe Estates Commissioners inform me that an originating application in respect of the sale of the estate in question was lodged with them on 9th February, 1906. The case of Denis Lehane will be duly considered when the estate is being dealt with. The Commissioners have already approached the landlord's agent on Le-hane's behalf, but have been informed that the owner is not willing to sell the holding in which Lehane seeks to be reinstated, seeing that this holding is now incorporated in the owner's farm and demesne.