§ Mr. PATRICK MEEHANasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if the Estates Commissioners will give favourable consideration to the application of Michael Pender, representative of an evicted tenant, James Pender, who was evicted from a holding on the estate of Mrs. Nannie Edge, at Gurnaclea, Queen's County, in 1885; and whether, in the event of his application not having been received 1605W within the time specified by the Evicted Tenants Act, 1007, the Commissioners will bear in mind the circumstances of his eviction and grant him an allotment of any untenanted land they may acquire in the district in the near future?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners received an application from Michael Pender for reinstatement in a holding on the Silcock Estate, Queen's County, formerly occupied by his father. The estate has been purchased by the occupiers under the Land Purchase Acts, and the Commissioners have no power to interfere with the present occupier of the hold-ins in question; and, as the application was not lodged within the period prescribed by the Evicted Tenants Act, 1907, it does not therefore come within the provisions of that Act.