§ SIR T. ESMONDEI beg to ask the Postmaster General what is the nature of the wayleave which prevents the opening of a telegraph station at Fenit, County Kerry, which is the port of Tralee; whether he is aware that fishing boats coming into the bay laden with fish have to send foot messengers seven miles to Tralee to get the light railway to run down a train to take off their freights of fish, in consequence of which unsatisfactory arrangement these freights of fish often miss connection with the Great Southern and Western Railway, and are damaged and sometimes destroyed; and whether, in view of the fact that the telegraph can be either taken along the main road from Tralee to Fenit, or along the line of railway, and further that the guarantee required by the Post Office has been long since obtained, a telegraph office at Fenit will be opened at once?
§ SIR J. FERGUSSONThe difficulty is to come to terms with the Railway Company for the attachment of the wires to their poles, but I hope that this will be got over. To erect new poles along the road would cost much more. I do not know the circumstances mentioned in the second paragraph, but I know that the telegraph is much wanted.