§ MR. MUNRO FERGUSON (Leith, &c.)I beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has received any further representations from the Board of Trade regarding a grant to carry out the recommendations of the Electrical Communication of Lighthouses, &c. Commission, and whether any grant has 1188 yet been arranged to enable the Post Office and Lighthouse Authorities to carry out these recommendations in whole or in part; whether he can state what lightships or rock lighthouses, if any, are to be forthwith connected with the telegraphic system; and whether any such connections will be made during the present most favourable season of the year—namely, the summer months?
§ SIR W. HARCOURTA cable is almost immediately to be laid to Lundy Island. Communication is authorised to 16 shore lighthouses, and to some of them has been completed. The lightships and rock lighthouses will be taken in hand when means are available.