HC Deb 22 February 1886 vol 302 cc910-1
VISCOUNT CRANBORNE

asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether the Local Government Bill, which, as stated by the President of the Board of Trade, was to include Ireland, would be introduced before the 1st of April?

THE FIRST LORD (Mr. W. E. GLADSTONE)

explained that what the President of the Board of Trade had stated with regard to the inclusion of Ireland was as to an entirely different Bill—namely, that dealing with railway rates.