§ MR. T. W. RUSSELL (Tyrone, S.)I beg to ask the Postmaster General why, since the acceleration of the arrival and delivery of the English mails in Belfast, there is no delivery of local letters outside a half mile radius from the General Post Office from the first delivery at 7 a.m. until the delivery at 4.30 p.m.; and why letters received from Londonderry and the North at the General Post Office at 11.15 a.m. are not delivered outside the half mile radius until 4.30 p.m.?
§ *SIR J. FERGUSSONThe present delivery of letters at Belfast are at 7 a.m. (general); 10.20. a.m. (general); 12.30. p.m. (restricted); 4.15. (general); 8 p.m. (general). The 10.20 a.m. delivery includes local letters as well as the English and Scotch night mail letters viâ Holyhead and Stranraer. The 12.30. p.m. delivery is restricted to the central portion of the town and letters, therefore, received at 11.15. a.m. for places outside that portion have hitherto been delivered at 4.15 p.m. A revision is now under consideration for making the 12.30 delivery general like the rest, and the above letters will then be distributed by it.