§ MR. JAMES O'CONNOR (Wicklow, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Blackditches, county Wicklow, estate of the Marquess of Waterford has been sold, or is about to be sold, to the tenants; whether the tenants of the estate, including Mrs. Mary Cullen, evicted in 1882, are to be reinstated; and, if not, will Mrs. Cullen and the other evicted tenants be provided with farms on the estate or elsewhere; and whether there is any untenanted land on the Blackditches property of the Marquess of Waterford.
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. BIRRELL,) Bristol, N.No proceedings for the sale of this estate are 509 pending before the Estates Commissioners, and no application for reinstatement has been received from Mrs. Cullen. The Commissioners are not aware that there is any untenanted land on the property.