§ MR. LUNDONTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland can he say whether the Estates Commissioners have lately sent an inspector, a Mr. Howard, to Kilfinane, County Limerick, to negotiate a sale and purchase as between Colonel Gascoigne and his town tenants; has Mr. Howard interviewed the agent, Mr. Cecil Vandeleur, and the representatives of the tenants, and, if so, with what results; and are arrangements concluded between Colonel Gascoigne and the rural tenants on the property.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners have decided that the evicted tenants named in the Question are suitable to work land, and their cases have been referred to an inspector with the object of providing them with their former or other holdings if possible. The inspector has not yet reported the result.