asked whether the attention of the Local Government Board has been drawn to the case of a man named John Kelly, a pauper in receipt of out-door relief of the value of 6s. a week from the Bandon Board of Guardians, who was able to pay 50s. for a pony distrained for refusal to pay contributions under the Insurance Act; whether this man states that he was commissioned to act as emergency man on the occasion, but declines to say by whom he was supplied with money; and whether the Local Government Board will order an inquiry into the whole transaction and the discontinuance of the outdoor relief?

The Local Government Board have no information with regard to this matter, but inquiry is being made.