§ MR. D. SULLIVAN (Westmeath, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant whether the Local Government Board intend to direct the discontinuance in office of the paid Guardians of the Dungarvan Union in time to allow the re-election of a Board of Guardians on the 26th of March next, and give the ratepayers a voice in the levying and expenditure of the rates?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR,) Manchester, E.The Local Government Board would not feel justified in discontinuing the Vice Guardians of Dungarvan Union next month, as the proceedings of the elected Guardians who were displaced in October 376 last for jobbery and corruption were such as to render it inadvisable to restore them to office at present. I may add that memorials signed by very influential persons in the Union have been received, praying that the services of the Vice Guardians may be retained.