§ MR. O'SHEAasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether the Fishery Commissioners have recently made any investigation into the statements as to the destruction of salmon in large numbers at Killaloe, county Clare? I beg also to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, If he is now in a position to state whether any special measures are being taken by the Irish Board of Works to ascertain the extent of the destruction of salmon in the Killaloe fishery; and, whether it is attributable to the iron sluice-gates erected by the Board?
§ MR. COURTNEY, in reply, said, the Inspectors of Fisheries and the Board of Works were acting together in this matter. The statement made in a local paper as to the destruction of salmon was very much exaggerated, and there was no reason to believe that the loss of life was due to the erection of the iron sluice-gates by the Board. The matter was being carefully watched, with a view to ascertaining what were the real causes.