§ MR. HENNIKER HEATON (Canterbury)asked the Postmaster General, Whether he can state the amount of money paid to the Submarine Cable Company for conveying messages from England to France and from France to England last year; also, the total amount paid to the Company for Continental messages last year?
§ THE POSTMASTER GENERAL(MR. RAIKES) (Cambridge University)I do not think I am in a position to give a categorical answer to the hon. Member's Question; but it may interest him to know that the Post Office received during the year 1886 on account of Anglo- 708 French messages the sum of £37,906; and that the total earnings of the Post Office under the joint purse arrangements with the Submarine Telegraph Company were for the same year £132,223.