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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



Agricultural Staiistics^ Ireland, 1898 {C. 9006]. Price 2\d. 



This Parliamentary paper contains a report relating to 

 migratory agricultural labourers, showing their distribution in 

 Ireland when at home, their relative proportion to the popu- 

 lation, their social position when at home as measured by 

 the extent of their holdings, their destination, and the 

 number who left the several Irish ports from ist January 

 to 31st August, 1898. It appears from returns collected 

 by enumerators that there were in June last 17,902 persons, 

 or 0*38 per cent, of the population, according to the census 

 ot 1 89 1, who had either left or intended to leave their homes 

 to seek employment as agricultural labourers elsewhere. 

 The corresponding number for 1897 was 16,237, showing 

 an increase of 1,665 present year. More than four- 



iifths of the entire number for 1898, namely, 14,535, were 

 natives of the province of Connaught, and 9,519 of them 

 came from the county of Mayo, which furnishes over one- 

 half of all the Irish migratory labourers. The next province 

 in importance is Ulster, which furnished 3,063 migratory 

 labourers, of whom 2,770 (or 90-4 per cent.) were natives of 

 the county of Donegal. The proportion of migrator}- labourers 

 to the adult male population of Mayo was found to be no less 

 than 1 8*3 per cent. It should be noted that the Midland 

 Great Western Railway returns show that 24,259 harvestmen 

 were conveyed by that company to Dublin during the season 

 of 1898, while 13,450 labourers are estimated to have left Irish 

 ports (other than Dublin] for temporary employment in 

 England or Scotland. 



Reports of the Principal Chemist upo?i the work of the Inland 

 Revemie Bra7ich of the Government Laboratory y for 1896-7 

 and 1897-8. C — 9034 9035. Price i\d, each. 



These publications contain particulars of the analyses of 

 beer and beer materials, tobacco, naphtha, alcohol, etc., etc.. 



