§ MR. VINCENT KENNEDYTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if the Estates Commissioners have received an application 859 for reinstatement from John D. M'Manue, only son of John M'Manus who was evicted from his farm on the Bracken-bridge estate, Florencecourt, county Fermanagh, in 1892, and who died in Glasgow in 1897; will he say who is in possession of this farm, and what fine was paid; and what prospect there is of this young man getting back to his dead father's home.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell) The Estates Commissioners have received the application referred to, and have had the case investigated. The holding in which reinstatement is sought is at present in the occupation of another person, who is unwilling to surrender it. The Commissioners have placed the name of the applicant's mother on the list of persons suitable to receive an allotment of land if such should be obtained. The applicant himself is only fifteen years of age.