HC Deb 20 September 1886 vol 309 c971
Mr. JORDAN (Clare, W.)

asked the Postmaster General, If he is aware that a public meeting was held lately at Kildysart, county Clare, at which the following Resolution was passed unanimously, viz:— That, in consequence of the great inconvenience caused to the people of Kildysart by the want of proper mail service, we earnestly trust the Government will take immediate steps to remedy such a state of things, &c.; if he received a copy of said Resolution; if it was stated at the meeting that the mail train carrying letters from Dublin, England, and elsewhere arrived at Ennis at 11.30 A.M.; if the mail car from Ennis to Labasheeda, viâ Kildysart, starts from Ennis six hours before the arrival of those mails, or at 4.30 A.M.; if thereby the letters are detained in Ennis for sixteen hours, and the daily newspapers are not delivered in those districts till late the day after publication; and, if the Postmaster General will consider this case, and if he will make arrangements that the mail car now leaving Ennis at 4.30 A.M. will not start till 11.30 A.M., the hour at which at present the mail train arrives at Ennis?

THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Sir HENRY HOLLAND) (Hampstead)

(who replied) said, the Postmaster General had not yet received a copy of the resolution referred to.