§ MR. WILLIAM ABRAHAM (Cork County, N.E.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners will give the date upon which Mr. John J. Therry, junior, became a judicial tenant of the three evicted farms on the Grehan estate, Kildorrery, County Cork; whether a fair rent was fixed in the Land Court or by a private arrangement with his father, Mr. John Therry, agent to the estate, and what are the terms; whether, seeing that Mr. John Therry, junior, lives over twenty miles away from these farms, and in another county, and does not use or cultivate them as ordinary farms in accordance with proper methods of husbandry, the Estates Commissioners will make further inquiries into all the circumstances with a view to the reinstatement of the tenants who have been evicted from these holdings; and when were the tenants in question evicted.
834 (Answered by Mr. Birrell.) I am informed that an agreement and declaration, fixing a fair rent in this case, was lodged with the Land Commission on 4th November, 1903, the name of the tenant being John Therry, junior. The Estates Commissioners are of opinion that the lands could not he acquired compulsorily under the Evicted Tenants Act, but they are prepared to consider any representations to the contrary which may be made to them. The former tenants appear to have been evicted in 1890 and 1894.