§ MR. MUNTZasked the Secretary to the Treasury, there being at present a vacancy in the appointment of a District Registrar of the Court of Probate at Lichfield, Whether he would consider the desirability of leaving the vacancy unfilled until some arrangement could be made to include at least South Staffordshire in the Birmingham Probate Registry, in order to obviate the existing inconvenience arising from so large a number of the inhabitants of South Staffordshire being intimately connected with Birmingham?
§ COLONEL STANLEYSir, some little time ago, in anticipation of the present vacancy in the District Probate Registry at Lichfield, I caused a letter to be addressed to the Lord Chancellor, suggesting that when the vacany occurred the question of uniting this registry with that at Birmingham should be considered. No answer has yet been received from his Lordship, but the hon. Member will perceive that the object which he has in view was not lost sight of at the Treasury. The matter depends 539 entirely upon local considerations, and the convenience of the persons concerned, as well as upon the view which the Lord Chancellor may take of it.