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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



[March 1896. 



without being condemned by the justices. Some of these 

 were the carcases of animals which were found to have 

 suffered from tuberculosis. 

 2. The number of pieces of meat, not being whole carcases, 

 which had been seized and condemned, some of which 

 were tuberculous. 

 The information furnished by the local authorities in expla- 

 nation of, or in addition to, their returns has been tabulated in 

 this publication. 



Distres^s from Want of Em])loyment : Third Report from the 

 Select Committee, together with the Proceedings of the 

 Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, and Index. 

 [365.] Price 8s. lOJc^. 



This volume contains the evidence given before the Com- 

 mittee between 15th March and 25th June 1895, which includes 

 the references made by certain of the witnesses*, inter alia, to 

 agricultural employment as affected by the severe weather and 

 by the general depression of agriculture, to migration of agricul- 

 tural labourers to the towns, to suggestions for improved methods 

 of cultivation and for the retention of labour on the land, to 

 the wages and social condition of labourers, and to farm 

 colonies. 



Loccd Taxation Returns {Ireland). Returns of Local Taxation 

 in Ireland for the Year 1894. Collected and compiled 

 under the direction of the Local Government Board by 

 desire of His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. 

 [C— 7795.] Price 6d. 



It is stated in this publication that the local taxation of 

 Ireland, after making the deductions necessary on account of 

 sums which appear twice in the receipts of local authorities, 

 consequent on the fact that contributions are sometimes made 

 from the receipts of one local authority towards the expen- 

 diture of another, may be set down for the year 1894 at 

 3,749,422^, being an increase of 44,988^., or 1'2 per cent, on the 

 amount in the previous year. 



Information is also given in the report regarding dog licences, 

 burial boards, poor rates, drainage, &c. 



