§ MR. CHANCE(for Mr. MAURICE HEALY) (Cork)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether Sub-Inspector Milling has received a favourable record in respect of his behaviour on the occasion of the dispersal of a public meeting held in Cork in December last, in connection with which he was charged with assault by the hon. Member for Mid Cork (Dr. Tanner), and returned for trial by the local Bench of Magistrates; and, whether a number of the constables engaged with him on that occasion, and also implicated in the assault, have been similarly rewarded?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.)I am informed that the officer named, and a number of his men, did, upon the strong recommendation of their superiors, receive a second-class favourable record for promptitude and firmness shown upon the occasion of disturbance at Cork on the occasion referred to.