§ MR. P. MEEHAN (Queen's County, Leix)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that Mr. Daniel Whelan, a tenant on the Lansdowne estate at Luggacurren, Queen's County, was evicted in 1888 from Barrow House farm, containing 182 acres, and that Mr. Whelan's stock and crops were seized on and sold by the landlord; whether he is aware that Mr. Whelan's farm is at present occupied by a planter named Henry Hosie, and that Hosie holds 584 acres; whether the evicted tenant's grandson and sole representative has applied for restoration to his grandfather's farm; whether his claim has been admitted by the Estates Commissioners; and, if so, whether the Commissioners will acquire Barrow House farm for the restoration of the evicted tenant's representative.
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. BIRRELL,) Bristol, N.The Estates Commissioners inform me that an application has been lodged by Patrick Kelly, Daniel Whelan's son-in-law, praying that his son John Kelly may be reinstated in a farm from which Daniel Whelan was evicted in 1887. Patrick Kelly is the owner of 200 acres of land. The farm in question has since been purchased under the Land Purchase Acts and is in the occupation of a tenant purchaser. The Estates Commissioners do not intend to take any action in the matter.
§ MR. P. MEEHANDid not the grandson of the evicted tenant claim reinstatement, and was not the claim rejected on the ground that the kinship was too remote?
§ MR. BIRRELLI do not know how that may be.