§ MR. CHARLES CRAIG (Antrim, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland on what figures and on what information he has estimated that, even when the entire sum of £2,000 for labourers' cottages, which was formerly borne by the Exchequer grant in county Antrim, should fall on the rates, they would only be affected to 53 the extent of five-sixths of a penny in the pound; and whether, in the case of Lisburn rural district, in county Antrim, the amount which the rates had already to bear owing to the reduction of the Exchequer grant was 1½d. in the pound.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe aggregate valuation of the several rural districts in county Antrim is £597,000, and therefore an average rate of five-sixths of a penny in the pound would produce £2,000. In the particular district to which the hon. Member refers, the rate appears to have been above the average.