§ MR. LONSDALE (Armagh, Mid.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland what was the 1593 number of outrages in Ireland recorded as agrarian and non-agrarian, respectively, in which firearms were used, during the periods of eleven months ended 30th November 1906, 1907, and 1908, respectively.
§ MR. BIRRELLDuring the first eleven months of each of the three years mentioned the numbers of outrages in which firearms were used, classified as agrarian and non-agrarian, were as follows: 1906, agrarian twenty, non-agrarian thirty-six; 1907, agrarian fifty-six, non-agrarian fifty-three; 1908, agrarian 128, non-agrarian sixty-five.
§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland what was the number of indictable crimes of agrarian and non-agrarian character, respectively, recorded under the heading injury to properly, in the years 1906 and 1907, and in the period of eleven months ended 30th November, 1908.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe number of indictable offences recorded under the heading of injury to property in each of the periods mentioned were as follows: 1906, agrarian twenty, non-agrarian 120; 1907, agrarian twenty-nine, non-agrarian 152; 1st January to 30th November, 1908, agrarian eighty-five, non-agrarian ninety-nine.