§ MR. SHEEHAN (Cork County, Mid.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he has received a resolution from the Macroom rural district council, requesting the Estates Commissioners to have the cases of the Colthurst and Skerrick tenantry, in which a dead-lock exists in the negotiations for purchase, and where extreme measures have been resorted to by the landlord, investigated with a view to a friendly settlement, and also setting forth that an inspection of the holdings in these cases is desirable for the purpose of fixing the terms of purchase, and otherwise facilitating a sale of the estates; and will he state what steps are being taken to comply with the request contained in this resolution.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Estates Commissioners inform me that they have not received the resolution referred to, but they have been approached with regard to the estate of Sir George Colthurst, in the neighbourhood of Macroom, with a view to their intervening to bring about a settlement and sale, and they are in correspondence with the owner on the subject.