§ MR. LONSDALETo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that in the division of the estate of Captain Carden, at Barnane, Templemore, by the Estates 1064 Commissioners, all the farms have been allotted to officials of the United Irish League and their supporters; and whether he can offer any explanation why independent applicants, thoroughly suitable and living nearer to the estate, have been excluded from a share of these lands.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners are not aware that the facts are as suggested in the Question. The Commissioners have not informed themselves of the political views of the persons to whom they propose to allot parcels of the Carden estate, nor have they taken any such matters into consideration.