§ MR. HALPINI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that Mary Organ, of Carrowerah, Kilshanny, West Clare, aged eighty-four years, was served with an ejectment on 7th December, 1906, and secondly served on 15th January, 1907, and evicted on 8th March, 1907; and that the landlord, Lord Inchiquin, or his agent, Mr. Edward O'Brien, was offered two years rent as a settlement, and declined; if he will inquire of the Estates Commissioners why they did not reply to the tenant's application for reinstatement; and is he aware that a gamekeeper is grazing the evicted farm without the consent and against the wish of the tenant.
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. BIRRELL,) Bristol, NThe Estates Commissioners have not received a formal application for reinstatement from Mrs. Organ, but have received a letter from her in which she states that she was evicted on 8th March last, and asks for the Commissioners' assistance in the matter. The Commissioners have hitherto limited their intervention to the cases of evicted tenants who were evicted before the Act of 1903 was passed, and they do not propose to inquire at present into cases of eviction since the passing of the Act. Such cases will only be inquired into in connection with the sales of the particular estates on which the evictions took place. The Commissioners have no knowledge of the facts of the particular case.