§ MR. BOLANDTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners have taken any, and, if so, what, steps to bring about a settlement as to terms of purchase on the estate of Mr. D. C. O'Connell at Coomahover, near Mastergeehy, County Kerry, in accordance with the memorial submitted to them by the tenants.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners inform me that on the 17th instant they received a memorial from seven tenants on the estate in question, stating their desire to purchase their holdings through the Commissioners. The Commissioners have no power to compel the landlord to sell the property, but they are writing to him in order to ascertain his intentions in the matter.