§ GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOURasked the Secretary of State for the 1343 Home Department, If he will lay upon the Table of the House the Papers referred to (in C. 3,726) relating to Dover, excluding the Reports of the Committees and Commissions previously laid upon the Table of the House; if specific information can be given as to the number of acres of varying depths of water within the Harbour areas, and the length of the breakwater and arms forming the proposed Dover Harbour; and, Statement of the income to be expected, and the rate of interest which that income will provide, on the capital to be invested?
§ MR. HIBBERT (for Sir WILLIAM HARCOURT), in reply, said, that his right hon. and learned Friend was unable to lay on the Table the Papers referred to until they were out of the hands of the Admiralty. Application had been made for them, and he did not think there would be any difficulty in obtaining the assent of the Admiralty to their being laid on the Table. There was no statement at the Home Office as to the number of acres within the harbour areas; but he was able to inform his hon. and gallant Friend that the length of the breakwater and arms forming the proposed Dover Harbour would require 10,000 lineal feet of new work. As to the third part of the Question, he had to refer his hon. and gallant Friend to the Treasury, as there was no information in the Home Office on the subject.