§ MR. LUNDONI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that on the Lloyd estate, Portnard, Cappamore, county Limerick, negotiations for sale and purchase, as between landlord and tenants, were opened about six years ago, before the Judge of the Land Court, under the fortieth section of the Land Act of 1896, but were adjourned until the rental could be arranged; that about a year later the mortgagees on the property offered to sell at nineteen years purchase, the tenants offering eighteen years; and will he take steps, through the Estates Commissioners, to open negotiations again for the sale.
MR. BRYCEI am informed by the Land Commission that the only estate in the district referred to in regard to which a request under the section quoted was lodged with the Commissioners was the estate of William Thomas Lloyd. The holdings on this estate were with one exception sold to the tenants in the year 789 1901. If the hon. Member refers to the estate of R. E. Lloyd, no proceedings have, I am informed, ever taken place under Section 40 in regard to it.