§ MR. SIMONDSasked the Vice President of the Committee of Council, If he can state the time when the parishes of Headbourn Worthy, Otterbourne, and Colden Common, in the county of Southampton, may expect to receive a reply to their applications for Building Grants, made to the Council some four months since?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTERsaid, in reply, that in the third parish mentioned by the hon. Gentleman, Colden Common, the application was made before the very great pressure of applications had set in, on the 18th of October, 1870; the reply was sent on the 27th of October, and the officers were still corresponding with the promoters of the school to obtain the necessary information. With regard to the other two schools, the applications had been made, one on the 6th of December, and the other on the 9th of December. Nearly 2,000 applications had been received before these two; and, for the reason he had frequently stated, with the utmost endeavour to get through the work, he could not state the precise time when they would be replied to.