§ MR. P. O'BRIEN (Monaghan, N.)I bog to ask the Postmaster General whether he is aware that great inconvenience is experienced by passengers travelling to and from Kingstown by the Royal Mail boats by reason of the fact that telegrams cannot be despatched except by the payment of special 1253 messengers, not always available, to convey them to the Kingstown office, a quarter of a mile distant, on week days, and on Sundays, when the Kingstown office is closed, they have to be sent to the General Office, Dublin, a distance of eight miles; and whether he will have an office opened on the Mail Pier, and a telegraphist to attend during the hours of arrival and departure of the mail boats, or make arrangements for a telegraph messenger for the conveyance of messages to the Kingstown and Dublin offices?
§ *MR. RAIKESI shall be glad to make inquiry into the matter to which the hon. Member refers, and I will let him know the result in due course.
§ MR. BYRNE (Wicklow, W.)I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether he has ordered the mail car now plying between Tinahely, Hacketstown, and Kiltegan, to be withdrawn; is this car to be run from Baltinglass to Kiltegan and Hacketstown instead; will this arrangement cause the Tinahely letters to Hacketstown and Kiltegan to be sent viâ Dublin, a distance of 100 miles, instead of six miles by the car; and whether he could run one car from Baltinglass to Kiltegan, together with the present car from Tinahely to Hacketstown?
§ *MR. RAIKESI do not know that I can add much to the answer which I gave last week on this subject to the hon. Member for North Longford, and in which I fully explained the reasons for the proposed change. I am afraid that circumstances would nod warrant the employment of two cars, as suggested by the hon. Member; but I will with pleasure make inquiries on this point, and acquaint him with the result.