§ MR. WALTER LONGTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether four of the five Assistant Land Commissioners, whose employment was recently discontinued, notwithstanding several years of approved service in each case, were subsequently reappointed for brief periods; and, if so, what were the circumstances which led to their reappointments.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Answer is in the affirmative. The gentlemen in question were, upon the recommendation of the Land Commission, reappointed for periods ranging from five to twelve weeks in order that the cases in which they had been engaged, but which has not been completed at the expiration of their term of office, might be disposed of without the necessity of incurring delay and expense in having the cases re-listed and re-heard.