§ MR. JENNINGS (Stockport)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether it is intended to create a new office in the Victualling Department of the Admiralty, at a salary of £1,000 a-year; and, whether it is to be given to an official who in 1878 was a writer in the Secretary's Department of the Admiralty, and who has already received, in an unusually short space of time, promotion to one office of £600 a-year, and to another of £850 a-year?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON) (Middlesex, Ealing)There is no intention to create a new office in the Victualling Department of the Admiralty carrying a salary of £1,000.