§ Mr. WILLIAM ABRAHAMasked the Chief Secretary if he will explain how it comes about that Mr. Edmund Hayes, formerly a non-judicial tenant on the Kingston estate, Mitchelstown, has not been allowed the reduction of £85 in the purchase price of his holding, the said reduction having been made on an inspection for value by Mr. Sydney Smith; if the tenant-purchaser will now be granted the reduction in question on the amount of the purchase money; and, if not, will he say why this will not be done?
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§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners inform me that Edmond Hayes entered into agreements with the landlord to purchase his two holdings on the estate for the sums of £689 and £517 respectively under the Irish Land Act, 1903. The Commissioners, after a full consideration of their inspector's report and the circumstances of the case, made the respective advances applied for, and vested the holdings in the purchasing tenant.