His reply is as follows:-- "'I can answer your question as far as the Brooke estate is concerned.

None of the tenants are back in their farms, nor are they likely to be.

The landlord has the land partly stocked with cattle; but I may say the land is nearly waste; the gates, fences, and farmsteads partly destroyed.

I was at the fair of Coolgreany about three weeks ago, and the country looked quite changed; the weeds predominating in the land that the tenantry had under cultivation when they were evicted from their farms.

The landlord has done nothing to lay the land down with grass seed, consequently the land is waste.