§ SIR T. ESMONDE (Kerry, W.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if he can state the cause of the last accident on the Tralee and Dingle Railway, when a train ran off the line at the curve approaching the bridge over the river at Ballydunlea; whether the line is safe for traffic; and if it is the fact that the Directors of the Tralee and Dingle Railway have refused to carry out General Hutchinson's recommendations for the better management of the line?
§ MR. MUNDELLAThe Manager informs me that one end of a goods waggon got off the rails owing to two of the tie-rods breaking. He says the speed of the train was only three miles an hour, and that the accident is grossly exaggerated. The Board of Trade are unable to say that the line is unfit for traffic. The Board much regret that the Directors have refused to carry out General Hutchinson's recommendations with one exception; but I am in communication with them on the subject, and I trust they will not adhere to the unsatisfactory position they have assumed.
§ MR. SEXTON (Kerry, N.)Considering that three lives were lost by the recent accident on this line, are we to understand that the Board of Trade have no means of compelling the Directors to carry out General Hutchinson's recommendations?
§ MR. MUNDELLAWe are pressing them upon the subject.