asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland how many threatening letters and notices were served or posted in the county of Kerry from 1st January, 1910, to 31st December, 1910, and from 1st January of this year to 30th June of this year?

The Inspector-General informs me that as far as the police are aware the number of threatening letters and notices served or posted in the county Kerry from 1st January to 31st December, 1910, was thirty-one, and nine for the past half year.

asked the Chief Secretary whether he proposes to direct the law officers of the Crown to be represented at the hearing at Tralee in August next of the Ardfert County Council election petition; and if it is proposed to have a Government shorthand writer present in order that a verbatim report of the evidence and judgment may be taken?

The Attorney-General will be represented at the hearing of the petition. There will not be a Government shorthand writer present. The Commissioner is, I am informed, provided with a reporter to take a verbatim report of the evidence and judgment.

asked the Chief Secretary if he will give the names of all receivers now over estates in the court of the Land Judge in Ireland, with the names of the estates over which each is receiver, the date of first appointment in each case, and the total amount paid him as receiver since that date?

I am not in a position to give this information, and to make the necessary investigation would involve serious delay in transacting the business of the court.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been directed to the nuisance and loss occasioned to shopkeepers and other ratepayers in Bridport Place and East Road, Hoxton, by the splashing of mud by motor omnibuses; and, if so, whether he will take measures directed either to forbidding motor omnibuses to go along narrow streets of this character, or, if that is not found to be possible, to secure that such mudguards or other means should be adopted as will put an end to this annoyance?

I must refer my hon. Friend to the answers which I gave to him on May the 23rd and to the hon. Member for Haggerston on Monday last.

asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that a youth named Williams was convicted on or about 13th July last in the Salford police court of throwing one stone at a constable at the time of the recent strike, and received six weeks' hard labour; and whether, seeing that Williams has always borne a good character and this is his first offence, he can see his way to recommend a. mitigation of the sentence?

I have made inquiry in the case, and regret that I have found no sufficient ground for recommending any reduction of the sentence on this prisoner, who took an active part in an attack with stones on the police.

asked the Home Secretary if his attention had been called to a robbery with violence in broad daylight committed upon Mrs. Greenwood in Hackney Road, on Monday, 17th July, for which the thief has not yet been arrested; and whether, in view of the growing frequency of such incidents and the escape of the offenders, he could take steps for the better protection of the public?

It is a fact that a string bag containing money was snatched from Mrs. Greenwood's hand on the 17th of July in the Hackney Road, and that the thief, of whom she could give no satisfactory description, has not been arrested. There is no reason to think that such incidents are of growing frequency.

asked the Under-Secretary for India whether the Return showing the number and constitution of local Advisory Committees appointed in connection with the granting of licences for the sale of intoxicating liquors will be issued before the end of the present Session?

The Return has not yet been received from India. The Government of India, no doubt, will do what they can to expedite it, but as a reference to Local Governments and districts is involved, it may take some time to prepare. I will lay it as soon as it is received.

asked the Prime Minister whether statutes codifying the Law, such as the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, the Sale of Goods Act, 1893, and the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, are almost invariably adopted by His Majesty's Dominions beyond the Seas; and, if so, seeing that it would assist in the unification of the Law throughout the Empire if more of such measures were passed by the British Parliament, if he will consider whether the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire and report what parts of the Law are fit to be codified would serve a useful purpose in securing the attainment of this result?

As I informed my hon. Friend on July 4th the question of uniformity of the laws of the Empire engaged the attention of the Imperial Conferences of 1907 and 1911, and my hon. Friend is no doubt familiar with the discussions and resolutions in which stress was laid on the desirability of a larger measure of uniformity. I can only repeat that I do not think that any useful purpose would be served by the appointment of a Royal Commission.