§ MR. HOGAN (Tipperary, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can say whether Mr. W. T. French, of Redwood, Lorrha, in North Tipperary, agent on the Tollemache estate, has purchased the Ragh and Mill farms on the estate, situate adjacent to the village of Lorrha and held by him as tenant; whether the tenants of the lands known as the Bullock parks have purchased, and, if so, at what price; whether he is aware that the other tenants on the estate have refused to purchase their holdings owing to the fact that Mr. French on behalf of she landlord wants twenty-five years 1445 purchase for them; and whether under the circumstances the Estates Commissioners will sanction the sale until the whole estate be sold.
MR. BRYCEThe Estates Commissioners inform me that they are unable to identify the estate mentioned as one in which proceedings for sale have been instituted before them; nor have they any knowledge of the matters referred to in the Question.