§ MR. O'SHAUGHNESSYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can say when the Estates Commissioners will give a grant to James Dore, of Curraghnadeely, Rathkeale, evicted tenant on the estate of Viscount Southwell, to enable him to stock the land and repair the dwelling house; and whether he is aware that Dore was put into possession under an agreement as eleven months grazier, and finds it difficult without a grant to work the land and pay the rent, as he has no capital.
§ MR. CHERRYThe Estates Commissioners duly inquired into the application for reinstatement lodged by James Dore, and communicated to the owner the price which they are prepared to advance for the purchase of the holding. The owner, however, declined to accept that price, and the Commissioners are not prepared 821 to increase it. It is understood that Dore is temporarily in possession of the holding under a grazing letting, but until an agreement for purchase has been arrived at, the Commissioners cannot consider the question of giving him a grant.
§ MR. O'SHAUGHNESSYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can say whether the Estates Commissioners, before completing the sale of the estate of Lord Southwell to his tenants, will include in it the case of Mrs. Mary O'Regan, of Castlematrix, Rathkeale, who is subtenant to the middle landlords, the representatives of Julius Delmege, deceased, of about nine acres, held at the yearly rent of £25.
§ MR. CHERRYThe Estates Commissioners have directed the special attention of their inspector to the alleged sub-tenancy referred to in the Question. When the estate is being inspected the matter will be fully inquired into, and the Commissioners will then be in a position to deal with it.