HL Deb 19 July 1888 vol 328 cc1737-8
LORD COLVILLE OF CULROSS

, who had given Notice that he would ask, Whether it was true that the War Department had applied to the Board of Trade to have a large portion of the sea on the north shore of the Solent buoyed off for the purpose of a rifle range at Browndown? said that, at the request of the War Department, he had consented to postpone the Question until that day week. The subject had caused a great deal of anxiety in the locality concerned, and he hoped to hear shortly that the War Authorities had thought better of this unsatisfactory and extremely dangerous project. He assumed that until his Question was answered they would take no steps to carry the scheme out.