§ MR. VILLIERS STUARTasked the Postmaster General, Whether he is aware that, previously to the opening of Waterford and Lismore Railway, a mail bag was daily conveyed by car from Cappoquin to meet the mid-day mail from Lismore to Cork and Dublin, enabling the inhabitants of the district to answer their letters by return of post; whether, on the opening of the Railway to Lismore, the car was taken off, but no mail bag by train substituted, although a train runs daily corresponding with the mail from Lismore; whether, in consequence, it is no longer possible to reply by return of post; whether numerous and influentially signed petitions have been forwarded from Dungarvan, Cappoquin, and neighbouring districts, urging the grant of a mail bag by the train referred to; and, whether he will grant the prayer of the petitioners, and restore to the inhabitants of those districts the postal facilities previously enjoyed?
§ MR. FAWCETTThe facts are substantially as stated in the Question of my hon. Friend. Cappoquin formerly received its day mail by car from Lismore; it has since 1878 received its day mail by train from Waterford, with the result that, while gaining certain facilities of communication on the Water-ford side, it has lost certain facilities of communication with places on the Lismore side. Dungarvan, as well as Cap- 1531 poquin, is concerned in the question; and to give both places a communication viâ Lismoro, as well as viâ Water-ford, would lead to considerable outlay beyond what the amount of correspondence to be benefited would warrant; but I have been deferring my reply to the applications on the subject until it can be seen whether any improvement results to the district from the contemplated acceleration of the Irish Provincial mails.