§ MR. O'SHEAasked the Secretary to the Admiralty, Whether his attention has been called to the fact that the large French boats fishing off the coast of Clare are in the habit of encroaching within the prohibited limit of three miles, and that when "driving" for mackerel their nets, which are of great length and weight, bear down and injure the small light nets with which the native fishermen fish from their canoes; and, if so, whether he will consider whether a cruiser might not advantageously be sent to the neighbourhood to enforce observance of the law?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN,in reply, said, the Government had no information, and therefore it was not thought necessary to send a cruiser to enforce observance of the law. There would be no objection to a gunboat occasionally cruising off that part of the coast.
§ MR. KENNYasked if there was not a man-of-war stationed in the Shannon, and whether it could not be sent?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANsaid, he could only repeat that the Government had no information of the alleged proceedings.