§ MR. LEAMYasked the Postmaster General, Whether he is aware that, although there is a line of Railway from Lismore to Waterford, viâ Cappoquin and Dungarvan, the night mails from Lismore and Cappoquin for Waterford are sent from those towns by car to Cahir, in the county of Tipperary, a distance of 40 miles, and thence by train to Waterford; that the night mails from Dungarvan and district for Waterford are sent by car to Clonmel, a distance of 28 miles, and thence by train to Waterford; and the mails from Durrow, Stradbally, and Kilmacthomas Stations on the Waterford and Lismore Railway, are sent by car to Piltown, in the county of Kilkenny, and thence to Waterford by train; and, whether the Postal authorities have considered the advisability of utilising the Waterford and Lismore Railway for the carriage of the mails between the towns to and through which it runs?
§ MR. FAWCETT, in reply, said, that day trains on the Waterford and Lismore Railway were now used for the conveyance of mails from Lismore and Cappoquin and other places in the county of Waterford to Waterford. He feared, if night trains were employed, the charge would be out of all proportion to the postal service rendered, because the mails would be but slightly accelerated.