§ LORD ARTHUR HILL-TREVORasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, If a Memorial has been presented to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with regard to Ardglass Harbour in the county of Down, and the necessity for improving that Harbour as a Fishery Station and Harbour of Refuge; and, if Her Majesty's Government are prepared to take any steps for the restoration of the Harbour and Lighthouse, and on what terms?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, in reply, said, that the Memorial in question had been for some time under the consideration of the Government. There had also been much correspondence on the subject between the Irish Government and the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. He was happy to be able to inform his noble Friend that the Treasury had consented to include the Harbour at Ardglass in the three next harbours of importance which would be benefited by Government aid, and that the terms on which that aid would be given would be that a free grant would be made of three-fourths of the sum necessary for the construction of the harbour, provided that the remaining fourth—namely, £5,000 in that case—was raised from local sources.