§ MR. GINNELLI beg to ask tho Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that negotiations for sale and purchase have been in progress for two years on Mr. Fitzclarence Paget's estate at Hilltown, Castlepollard; and whether, in view of the evictions that have been carried out, and of the fact that the tenants are willing to buy at prices to be fixed by the Estates Commissioners, he will ask the Commissioners to intervene.
MR BRYCEThe Estates Commissioners inform me that proceedings for the 1306 sale of one holding on the estate in question were instituted before them on the 10th July last. The Commissioners have no knowledge of the negotiations with other tenants or of evictions which may have taken place on the property; but it is stated in the originating application that the vendor proposes to restore an evicted tenant named McDavitt to his former holding, now in the occupation of the owner. The Commissioners have no information which would lead them to consider the case of this estate as one suitable for their intervention.