CAPTAIN CRAIGI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state the date on which Patrick McBride, of Toomaline, Doon, county Limerick, was made a free grant of £180 for stock and £20 for buildings; whether the inspector who examined the holding and recommended the grant is a near relative of Patrick McBride; whether an uncle of the inspector has taken possession of the stock purchased with the free grant made by the Estates Commissioners for a debt of his own; and whether the further sum of £20 granted has been expended for building purposes.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners inform me that the grant of £180 to Patrick Kilbride for the purchase of stock was made in February last. The grant of £20 for buildings, though sanctioned, has not yet been made. The Commissioners are informed that the inspector in question is not a near relative of Kilbride, and that the stock has not been seized by an uncle of the inspector.