§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland how much of the grant for 1892–3, under "The Western Highlands and Islands (Scotland) Works Act, 1891," has been expended upon useful works to date; and whether, having regard to the serious prevailing distress in the Island of Lewis and on the mainland of Ross and Cromarty, the department created under the aforesaid Act will more vigorously carry on the public works in hand as well as those applied for by the Local Authority?
§ SIR G. TREVELYANThe Scotch Office have allotted £3,000 to be spent in roads and pathways at once in the Lewis and on the mainland. They have advanced the Carloway Harbour and the Carloway Road to the point at which the Local Authorities and the contractors, if they agree, can take the work in hand at once. The Local Authority is responsible for carrying forward the works when once they are finally sanctioned. There is plenty of work for the people of the Lewis if these undertakings are set going.