§ COLONEL KING-HARMANasked the President of the Board of Trade, Whether the works connected with the lighthouse on Tory Island are being proceeded with; and, if they are not, if he can state the reason for the delay?
§ MR. CHAMBERLAIN, in reply, said, the hon. and gallant Member asked precisely the same Question on the 23rd of last month; and he then told him that they had asked the Irish Lights Commissioners for a Report in connection with Tory Island Lighthouse, and that until they received a reply they could not give the sanction of the Board to the expenditure.
§ COLONEL KING - HARMANWill the right hon. Gentleman press for a reply?
§ MR. DAWSONIs the right hon. Gentleman not aware that the delay on the part of the Irish Lights Commissioners in forwarding this Report was due to their anxiety respecting the abandonment of the experiments which were to have been made by the Committee?
§ MR. CHAMBERLAINsaid, the Irish Lights Commissioners delayed their reply owing to the proceedings of the Committee; and now that it had been dissolved there was no reason why they should not forward it.