§ MR. H. CAMPBELL (Fermanagh, S.)asked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether it is true that a weekly market, a monthly fair, and Petty Sessions, are held at Rosslea; if it is a polling station; and, if so, whether the Postmaster General could, having regard to the populousness of the district, see his way 726 to establish a telegraph office there without a guarantee?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. HENRY H. FOWLER) (Wolverhampton, E.)The question whether a telegraph office can be established in any place is governed solely by the amount of telegraphic business likely to be transacted. If it is estimated that the revenue for telegraph messages will not cover the expenses, the Postmaster General has no power to establish the office except under guarantee. According to the best estimate which can be formed of the amount of business likely to be done at Rosslea the revenue would fall short of the expenses; and the case is, therefore, one in which the Postmaster General must ask for a guarantee. I have no doubt the statements in the first paragraph of the Question are correct.