§ MR. LUNDONI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland is he aware that negotiations for sale and purchase have been for some time in progress between the representatives of the late Rev. George Vandeleur and his tenants on the lands of Ballinamona, Hospital, county Limerick; is he aware that four of the most influential tenants, comprising about 25 per cent. of the whole in number and rental, have refused to sign the agreements, fearing lest they hereafter would be unable to meet their yearly instalments through the facts that their rents are unusually high, the number of years' purchase on the rental equally so, and their lands being subject to periodic floods; and will he request the Estates Commissioners to send an inspector on the lands to see fair play done on both sides.
§ MR. CHERRYProceedings for the sale of the estate in question have been instituted before the Estates Commissioners. The estate will be inspected when it reaches its turn to be dealt with in order of priority, and the inspector will then make due inquiry into the cases of those tenants who may not have entered into agreements to purchase.