§ MR. JAMES O'CONNOR (Wicklow, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can state whether the farm of 195 acres in possession of the landlord, when the latter sold his estate known as the Hewston and Harris estate, of Killmacart, Hacketstown, to the Estate Commissioners, has been divided amongst the smaller tenants; will he s y why one of the tenants, named James Keating, who applied for a parcel of the land, was refused it; and whether any of the 195 acres have been given to persons who had not been tenants on the estate.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) It is understood that this Question refers to the estate of Messrs. G. Hewson and J. E. Penrose, trustees with power of sale. The Estates Commissioners inform me that they offered nineteen acres of the untenanted land to James Keating, but he refused to take it. All the untenanted land has been divided among tenants and former tenants on the estate with one exception, namely, that of a tenant in the neighbourhood of the estate.