Parliamentary Publications. 



A small proportion of the migratory labourers are land- 

 holders, and they are proportionately more numerous in 

 Connaught, where the average size of their holdings is also 

 greater. The percentage of the migratory labourers who are 

 not landholders is distinguished as follows : — Connaught 757, 

 Leinster 79*0, Ulster 8o*o, and Munster Q5'6. It is only in 

 Connaught that any number of these people hold farms 

 exceeding 15 acres in area. 



The proportion of Irish migratory labourers who sought 

 work in England was 75-8 percent.; 22*5 per cent, went to 

 Scotland ; and 17 per cent, did not leave their own country. 



Deer Forests in the six Highland Crofting Counties. \_R.G* 

 346. Price idi] 



This return gives the name of each deer forest in Argyll- 

 shire, Inverness-shire, Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland, Caith- 

 ness, and the Orkney and Shetland Islands. In the year 

 1898 these forests were assessed at £100,833 17s. od., and 

 their area amounted to 2,287,297 acres, compared with 

 1,711,892 acres in 1883. 



Tithe Rent-charge [Grants to counties and boroughs). 

 H.C. 363. Price id. 



This return shows the share of each of the administrative 

 counties and county boroughs of England and Wales in a 

 sum of £87,000, distributed in proportion to the shares which 

 the Local Government Board certified under Section 22 of the 

 Local Government Act, 1888, to have been received during 

 the year ended the 31st day of March, 1888, out of the grant 

 from the Exchequer, discontinued after the passing of that 

 Act. 



