§ MR. WILLIAM O'BRIEN (Cork Co., N.E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he has received a resolution of the Westport Board of Guardians, impressing upon him the importance of having the town of Louisburg, the nearest town to the best fishing grounds on the Mayo coast, connected by telegraph with the Irish and English markets, and urging him to use his influence with the Congested Districts Board to assist in supplying the necessary local guarantee to the Post Office; and whether, having regard to the extreme poverty of the Westport Union, and its inability to bear any additional local burden, he will make a representation to the Congested Districts Board upon the subject?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. JACKSON,) Leeds, N.The Congested Districts Board have not so far adopted a scheme for the development of fisheries in the immediate neighbourhood of Louisburg. The question, therefore, of whether it would be expedient for them to give a guarantee to obtain a telegraphic extension to that place is not ripe for consideration.