§ MR.P. J. O'BRIEN (Tipperary, N.)I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether he, some time ago, received a Memorial, largely and influentially signed, from a number of ratepayers resident in the parish of Kilruane, in the postal district of Nenagh, County Tipperary, and also from a number of merchants and traders in the town of Nenagh, praying that a post office for the receiving and delivery of letters might be established at Kilruane; and, whether, having regard to the fact (as set forth in the Memorial) 783 that this large and important district, comprising in its area 13 townlands, is several miles from the nearest post office, whereby the residents are subject to very great inconvenience, he will see his wav to have the want supplied?
§ * MR. RAIKESYes, Sir; the Memorial to which the hon. Member refers received my careful consideration; but I was unable to sanction the establishment of a post office at Kilruane, partly on account of the additional expense involved, and partly because the arrangement would have rendered necessary a change in the order of the present post from Nenagh, and excluded certain places now within that post. The letters which would be left to be called for at a post office at Kilruane only average two or three a week; and I regret that the circumstances do not admit of the Memorialists' wishes being complied with.