§ MR. THOMAS F. SMYTHTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if the Estates Commissioners would purchase grazing farms in the vicinity of Kiltoghert and Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, with a view to reinstating evicted tenants and enlarging uneconomic holdings, in case that the owners, Messrs. Whyte, Vaugh, Lawder, Gumley, and Mrs. Harrison, were willing to sell.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners are prepared to consider the question of purchasing any untenanted lands which the owners referred to may offer to sell to them.