§ MR. KAVANAGHasked the Postmaster General, When we may expect to have the post office telegraph system extended to the different country post offices in Ireland; and whether it is intended that the town of Borris, in the county of Carlow, which is a money order office and a railway station, should have the benefit of that system?
§ MR. MONSELLsaid, in reply, that in the course of about three months from 80 to 90 additional post-offices would be opened in Ireland, and that by the end of the year all the county towns and the larger villages would have telegraphic communication. As to the second Ques- 1669 tion, with regard to Borris, he was happy to inform the hon. Gentleman that telegraphic extension had been made to that town; but, at the present moment, the office of postmaster was vacant, the postmaster having been dismissed, and until the appointment of a postmaster the telegraph wires, of course, could not be put into use.