§ MR. WILLIAM REDMONDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that on the Butler Minors estate, Ballylire, county Clare, there is a landlord in the county Galway, Mr. William J. De Blacquiere, who resides at present in America, and who holds a farm of untenanted land on the above estate containing about 80 acres at Carrow-craheen, in the parish of Kilkeedy, county Clare, and has the same let on the eleven months system; whether his mother, Mrs. Annie De Blacquiere has signed the purchase agreements on his or her behalf for its purchase; and will the Estates Commissioners sanction the advance of money in this case, to the exclusion of small occupiers and farmers' sons.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners inform me that they cannot trace any proceedings as having been instituted before them. I have not yet heard whether proceedings for the sale of the estate are pending in the Land Judge's Court, but am making inquiries on the subject.