§ MR. STEWART MACLIVERasked the Secretary to the Admiralty, If he can now state whether the various claims put before him in his visits to the dockyards have been considered; and, whether some concession will be made, in next year's Estimates, to the shipwrights, joiners, riggers, and others who have submitted their case to the Admiralty?
§ MR. CAMPBELL - BANNERMANSir, the cases submitted to my hon. Friend the Civil Lord and myself by workmen in the Dockyards are still under consideration, and it may be some time before a decision in any of the cases is announced, as it is inexpedient that the subject should be dealt with in a piecemeal fashion. The statements made by those whom we saw will have all duo weight given to them, and we will endeavour to remove any proved grievance; but I think it right, in order to guard against disappointment, to add that we are not of opinion that any reason exists for a general increase of the wages of any largo bodies of workmen.