§ Mr. HORNERasked the Chief Secretary whether he is aware that boycotting has been going on during the past few months on the Island of Achill, county Mayo; will he state the alleged cause of the boycott; whether extra police, and, if so, how many, have been stationed there during the past three months; and how many police altogether are now there?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThere was lately some disturbance in Achill in connection with two of the properties there, and the Congested Districts Board were obliged to make it publicly known that they would take no steps to acquire either of the estates in question until it had ceased. There has been no renewal of disturbance in the island since the first week in March, but the police authorities do not yet consider it desirable to reduce the force of thirty police now stationed in the island to the normal number of sixteen.