§ COLONEL O'BEIRNEasked the Postmaster General, If, in conformity with a statement recently made, the Post Office authorities have as yet taken any steps to remedy the great inconvenience the inhabitants of East Bars, county Leitrim, and the surrounding district, are daily subject to, in consequence of the irregularity and delay in the Postal delivery, the morning mail being daily one hour and forty minutes late?
§ MR. FAWCETT, in reply, said, he had made inquiry into the subject referred to by his hon. Friend, and he found that it was the case that during the last three years the times of the morning trains from Enniskillen to Sligo had been so altered that they now arrived an hour and forty minutes later than formerly. The consequence was that the post arrived in East Bars and the district so much later. He had no power to control times of trains; but he was making inquiries into the subject, and hoped that some arrangement would be concluded 1510 whereby the trains would arrive as early as they formerly did.