MR. ALDERMAN W. LAWRENCEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he will delay appointing an Inspector of Fisheries in the place of Mr. S. Walpole (now the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man) until he may be able to consider the various Memorials forwarded to him requesting that a thoroughly practical person may be appointed, conversant with all kinds of 1593 fishing vessels, and with the nets, dredges, pots, lines, and sets used in the capture of fish?
SIR HENRY FLETCHERI should further like to ask the Home Secretary, Whether, having regard to the anxiety felt by the various interests affected, he will state when it is intended to fill up the existing vacancy in the Inspectorship of Salmon Fisheries?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTThe appointment has been postponed in order that the whole matter may be considered, and that department of the Public Service made more generally useful to the fisheries.