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Agricultural Statistics, Ireland, 1896. Report and Tables 

 relating to Migratory Agricultural Labourers; showing 

 their distribution in Ireland when at home ; their relative 

 proportion to the population ; their social position when 

 at home as measured by the extent of their holdings, if any ; 

 their destination ; and the number who left the several 

 ports from 1st January to 31st August 1896. [C. — 8197.] 

 Price 2\d. 



This report shows that there were in June of this year 

 16,312 persons, or 35 per 1,000 of the population according to 

 the Census of 1891, who had either left or intended to leave 

 their homes to seek employment as agricultural labourers else- 

 where ; of these, 3,593 had not left their homes at the time of 

 the enumeration. The corresponding number for 1895 was 

 14,119, showing an increase of 2,193 in the present year. The 

 proportion for the whole of Ireland is but 35 per 1,000, but 

 when considered by provinces it is found that the proportion in 

 Connaught is 18*3 per 1,000 ; in Ulster it is 1*7 ; in Munster, 

 0*1 ; and in Leinster, 0 04. 



Of the total number, 78 per cent, sought work in England > 

 19*6 per cent, in Scotland, and 2*4 per cent, in Ireland. 



Scotland. Report of the Committee of Council cn Education 

 for the year 1895-96. [C— 8071.] Price 2s. 6d. 



This report states that there were 692,202 children on the 

 registers of the inspected schools. Examinations were held in 

 the principles of agriculture under Art. 21 of the Code of the 

 Scotch Education Department. Of 2,488 pupils who were 

 examined in the first stage of this subject 2,128 passed, in the 

 second stage there were 1,686 passes out of 1,909, and 729 out 

 of 834 in the third stage, the total number of passes being 

 4,543 out of 5,231 presentations ; this is a decrease on the 

 previous year, when out of a total of 5,696 candidates 4,966 

 were successful. 



Woods and Forests. Seventy-fourth Report of the Commis- 

 sioners of Her Majesty's Woods, and Forests, and Land 

 Revenues. [H.C. 266.] Price Is. 1\d. 



The first part of this volume contains the Report of the 

 Commissioner in charge of the Woods, Royal Forests, Crown, 

 and certain other allotments in England ; of the Land Revenue 

 of the Crown in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and in the Isles of 

 Man and Alderney; and of the fee farm and other unim- 

 provable rents of the Crown in Wales, under a Warrant of the 

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