§ MR. HUGH LAW (Donegal, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland what progress has been made by the Estates Commissioners towards the sale of the estate of the trustees of Horatio Granville Murray Stewart; and whether the Commissioners will advance any money to Patrick Keeney, an evicted tenant on this estate, to crop, stock, and rebuild his house on the farm to which he was reinstated according to agreement made the 18th February last.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The agreements for the sale of the several estates of the Stewart trustees were lodged with the Estates Commissioners in August 1905, April, 1906, and May, 1907, but none of the cases has yet reached its turn to be dealt with. The Commis- 1630 sioners made an offer to the owners for the purchase of Patrick Keeney's holding, and the offer wax accepted. No purchase agreement, however, has yet been lodged in the case, but as soon as this is done, and Keeney is in possession, the Commissioners will make a free grant of £30.