§ GENERAL FRASER (Lambeth, N.)I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office if he would say what arrangements have been proposed by the War Office to enable the troops at the Curragh to practise tiring with the new magazine rifle; and if the proposed ranges at Portmarnock, in the County of Dublin, are solely for the use of the garrison of Dublin, or whether it is proposed to utilise them for the troops quartered at Curragh Camp or elsewhere?
§ MR. BRODRICKIt is expected that the ranges at the Curragh will be altered in time for the annual course of musketry to be carried out. The work of adapting them for the Lee-Metford rifle is now in progress. The proposed ranges at Portmarnock will be for the use of the garrison at Dublin. It is not at present proposed to use them for the troops at the Curragh.
§ MR. TIMOTHY HEALYI wish to ask the hon. Gentleman whether it is not a fact that all sections of the local inhabitants are opposed to these proposed ranges at Portmarnock, and if that is the case whether the War Office will sot them up?
§ MR. BRODRICKI am not aware that all sections are opposed to it. I will make further inquiries.