§ Mr. JOHN PHILLIPSasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners have communicated to the owner the sum they are prepared to advance for the purchase of the holding of John McGiff, tenant on the estate of Thomas C. Fagan, Rathmore, Ballymahon, county Longford, Record No. E.C. 8,541; and will they in this case insist on having 873 a purchase agreement for such a fair sum lodged as the Commissioners in other cases have done?
§ The CHIEF SECRETARY for IRELAND (Mr. Birrell)The reply to both paragraphs of the question is in the negative. The advances in respect of this estate were made in February last. McGiff is a judicial tenant, and the terms of an agreement to purchase his holding under the Land Purchase Acts is a matter for arrangement between the parties.