Captain CRAIGI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the cattle of Mr. C. C. B. Whyte, Carrick-on-Shannon, were on the 18th May driven off his lands and scattered some miles away over the country, and will he say if the farm is guarded by police; and whether seeing that a similar outrage was committed on the same day at Ballina, county Mayo, in reference to the cattle of a man named Kelly, he will say if any person has been arrested for either offence.
§ MR. BIRRELLI am informed that it is not the fact that Mr. Whyte's cattle 93 were driven off his lands. On the night of the 18th instant a dealer placed some cattle on an unfenced plot belonging to Mr. Whyte, and these wandered away during the night. In the Mayo case referred to, it is not clear whether the cattle wandered or were driven off. No one was soon driving the cattle away, and consequently no one has been arrested.