§ Mr. JOHN PHILLIPSasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he would state when the 395 acres of the Douglas estate, Cloonguish, county Longford, so often promised by the Estates Commissioners, would be finally acquired and divided among the uneconomic holdings around Cloonguish; and could he say when the lands of Corteen or Cartrons, the property of Mr. Levinge, who voluntarily offered these lands to the Commissioners for sub - division for the same class of holding, would be similarly divided?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe lands which the Estates Commissioners are acquiring on the Douglas Estate are being taken compulsorily under the Evicted Tenants Act, and will be allotted to evicted tenants. The Commissioners hope to get possession next month. Proceedings under the 1403 Act of 1903 for the sale of the estate referred to in the concluding portion of the question were only instituted last September. The estate will be dealt with in order of priority but its turn has not yet come.