The ad interim Report of the Estates Commissioners on the
working of the Irish Land Act of 1903 from November, 1903, to December, 1904, was issued on Tuesday. Without going into details, we may concentrate atten- tion on the broad fact that whereas the Act contemplated that the applications for advances, and the amount to be advanced by the Department, would not at first exceed the proceeds of an issue of five millions of Land Stock per annum, the applications for advances and offers for sale up to March, 1905, make a total estimated purchase-money of estates sold or offered for sale to the Commissioners of £19,115,830. As a result of this state of affairs both the staff (seventy-five officials) and accommodation „have already proved entirely insufficient for dealing promptly and methodi- cally with applications, and the Commissioners .have been unable to keep any estates on their hands for the purpose of improving them.
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