§ MR. DELANYTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state upon what grounds the Estates Commissioners reject the claims of Peter Malone, whose father was evicted from a holding on the Sandes estate, Garrymore, Mountmellick, seeing that he has two sisters to provide for, and that the farm he occupies, though nominally one of 70 acres, contains only 12 acres of arable land.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Estates Commissioners inform me that, after full consideration of the merits of the case referred to and the report of their inspector thereon, they decided, in the exercise of their discretion, not to take any action towards bringing about the reinstatement of Peter Malone in the holding from which his father was evicted.