53^ Parliamentary Publications. 



Ireland. Sixth Report of the Congested Districts Board for 

 Irela?id y of Proceedings under the Congested Districts 

 Board [Ireland) Acts, 1 891 -1896 (540^55 Vict., Ch. 48, 

 Section 41.) [C. — 8,622.] Price ^d. 



This report, recently published, refers to the proceedings 

 and expenditure of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland 

 for the financial year ended on the 31st of March, 1897. 



It contains detailed information on agriculture gene- 

 rally, as well as on sea fisheries, local industries, and 

 other matters. Some account will be found in another part 

 of the Journal of the experiments on potato cultivation 

 (p. 505.) 



Crofter Colonisation. Eighth Report of Her Majesty s Com- 

 missioners appointed to cany out a scheme of Colonisation 

 in the Dominion of Canada of Crofters and Cottars from 

 the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland. [C. — 

 8576.] Price i^d. 



This report contains information as to the present condition 

 of the two settlements, in Manitoba and the North- West 

 Territories, which were first established in 1888 and 1889. 

 From this it appears that there are 54 homesteads under 

 cultivation in the Killarney Settlement in Manitoba, which 

 numbers about 160 persons. The area under cultivation in 

 1896 was 2,828 acres, and the additional area broken and 

 under summer fallow was 913 acres, or a total of 3,741 

 acres, as compared with 3,604 acres in 1895. Dividing 

 this area among the 30 families forming the settlement, 

 the average is about 120 acres per family. 



The Saltcoats settlement, in the North- West Territories, 

 contained about 90 persons. They had 35 acres under 

 cultivation. 



