§ MR. GINNELL (Westmeath, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if be will state the name of the inspector who visited the estate of Colonel Malone in Westmeath on behalf of the Estates Commissioners, the date of the visit, any explanation of the fact that tenants and others who lodged a memorial with the Commissioners complaining of certain matters and asking the sale to be carried out in accordance with the law, and who were assured that those matters would be investigated on the ground, have not been called upon and have not been able to see the inspector; does this inspector see none but the landlord and his friends in matters in which the tenants are equally concerned; and will the Commissioners stay the sale until the matters raised have really been investigated on the ground.
MR. BRYCEThis Question appears to be asked under a misapprehension of 1140 the facts. The Estates Commissioners inform me that two originating applications have been lodged with them in respect of two separate portions of Colonel Malone's estate. The lands comprised in the first application have already been inspected, but these lands do not include the former holdings of certain evicted tenants from whom applications for reinstatement have been received. These holdings are included in the second application, and an inspection of them will shortly take place, when full inquiry from all persons concerned will be made.