§ MR. SHEEHANI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the report of the Inspector appointed to inquire into the circumstances of the estate, of Sir George Colthurst, County Cork, has been received by the Estates Commissioners; was this estate taken out of its order of priority, and, if so, will he explain the reason why; is there a field known as the village field, Ballyvourney, let on the grazing system, and, therefore, available for distribution; will he state what quantity of untenanted land on this estate may be acquired by the Commissioners for the benefit of the labourers and uneconomic holders; have the cases of the excluded tenants, Messrs. Henderson, Byrne, and Forrest, of Ardrum, Inniscarra, been fully investigated, 88 and, if so, with what result; and whether the tenancies of these tenants are exactly the same as that of Jeremiah Hegarty, whom the Estates Commissioners, after a public hearing, judicially decided was entitled to purchase as a bona fide tenant on the estate.
§ MR. CHERRYThe Estates Commissioners have not yet received their inspector's report on this case, and, therefore, have no present information upon the matters of detail referred to in the Question. The Commissioners, in pursuance of their powers under the Regulations, expedited the inspection of the case out of its order of priority, because they had intervened as conciliators between the landlord and tenants in pursuance of No. 8 of the Regulations.