§ Mr. SHEEHYasked whether the estate of Thomas Francis Fay, of Trim, county Meath, a bankrupt, has been under the control of the Court of Bankruptcy for the past twenty-six years; whether it has ever been offered to the tenants for sale; whether an effort has been made by the person entitled to the estate next after the bankrupt to get the estate out of court in order to sell to the tenants, and whether such effort has failed; and why the estate has not been offered for sale to the tenants?
§ Mr. BIRRELLI understand that Mr. Fay was adjudicated a bankrupt in 1886. He had a life interest in certain lands in Meath, and as there was a difficulty in effecting a sale, the official assignees collected and distributed the rents. The assignees have expressed their willingness to concur in a sale if their interest is provided for, but they have not been able to accept the offers hitherto made by the bankrupt and remainderman for that interest.