§ LORD ERNEST HAMILTON (Tyrone, N.)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether his attention has been drawn to Mr. Elliott's invention for the annihilation of smoke, now on view on the Thames Embankment; and whether it is the intention of the Government to give the invention a trial, with a view to the possibility of taking some steps to abate the smoke nuisance in the Metropolis?
§ MR. W. H. SMITHI am not personally acquainted with the apparatus in question; but I am informed by the Metropolitan Police, whose duty it is to enforce the Acts relating to the smoke nuisance in the Metropolis, that smoke has been observed to issue from the chimney on the Thames Embankment, from which it may be inferred that the apparatus is not at all times successful.