§ MR. LUNDON (Limerick, E.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can say whether the Estates Commissioners have sent inspectors to interview Mr. Robert Sanders, of Charleville, County Cork, with a view to the restoration to their evicted farms of Messrs. M'Grath and Barry on the Cooper estate, Knocklong, County Limerick, and of Messrs. Harty, Burke, and Ryan, on the Erasmus Smyth estate, Newpallas, County Limerick, and, if so, with what results; and has Mr. Sanders himself, in his capacity of agent on both 1234 estates, taken any steps to bring about a happier state of affairs.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners' inspector has had interviews with the agent of this estate and the representative of the town tenants, with the object of bringing about an arrangement for the purchase by these tenants of their plots. The Commissioners have only now received the inspector's report on the matter, and will consider it as soon as possible. In the meantime details cannot be given.