§ COLONEL WARING (Down, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that his predecessor promised that dredging operations should be undertaken in Donaghadee Harbour, County Down, and that in recent gales several vessels have been seriously damaged and one wrecked on the silt bank, which it is proposed to remove; and whether these dredging operations will now be immediately commenced?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Sir JOHN GORST,) ChathamI cannot find that any promise has been given that these works will be undertaken by the Treasury. Negotiations are still proceeding with the Belfast and County Down Railway Company, but I am unable to say when they will be concluded. If the vessels referred to are the schooners Belwoood and Kitty Clyde and the yacht Surprise, I am informed that the damage done to them was in no way connected with the condition of the harbour.