§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the case at Ennis quarter sessions in which Michael Hogan obtained a decree of £40 for six head of cattle which were driven from his land on 1st September, and never recovered; and whether now that cattle are being stolen as well as driven, he intends to take sterner measures of repression commensurate with the gravity of the offence.
§ MR. BIRRELLI am aware of the facts of this case. The six cattle appear to have been stolen, but by whom the police have not been able to discover. I understand that thefts of cattle sometimes occur in Ireland as elsewhere, quite apart 508 from any agrarian agitation, and the thieves are prosecuted if discovered. In this case, the police have used, and are using, every effort to discover the offenders and to trace the cattle.