§ MR. J. P. FARRELL (Longford, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether any further steps have been taken by the Estates Commissioners to acquire the Clonfin estate in North Longford, as an insolvent estate, with a view to dividing the 400 acres of untenanted lands on it between the evicted tenants of county Longford, of whom eighty-six have made application for restoration to the Commissioners.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Estates Commissioners inform me that no further information on the subject of this estate has reached them since I answered the hon. Member's previous Question on 23rd July last.† The Commissioners, however, are again communicating with the solicitors who represent the estate.