HC Deb 26 March 1885 vol 296 c650
MR. SEXTON

asked the Postmaster General, If the negotiations as to the acceleration of the Mail Service between Dublin and the West of Ireland have yet reached a definite result?

MR. SHAW LEFEVRE

In reply to the Question of the hon. Member, I bog to state that, after an interview with the Chairman and one of the Directors of the Midland Great Western Railway Company, at which the subject of accerating the day mail service on their line was fully gone into, I made the Company an offer which they have since declined, and I am equally unable to accept the proposal they made.

MR. MITCHELL HENRY

Would the right hon. Gentleman say whether the offer made by the Government was an advance on the offer made by the late Postmaster General?

MR. SHAW LEFEVRE

could not say what the offer made by the late Postmaster General was.

MR. SEXTON

Has the right hon. Gentleman any objection to say what the offer was?

MR. SHAW LEFEVRE

I think it undesirable to state what offer I made.