§ MR. MAURICE HEALYI beg to ask the Postmaster General whether it is now the practice in cases where special mail trains are sent from Queenstown for Kingstown to keep the special mails at Kingsbridge or Westland Row until the ordinary mail is being sent to Kingstown; whether the special mails were formerly in such cases sent on immediately to Kingstown, so that no time might be lost on the arrival of the ordinary mail in transferring the mails from train to steamer; and whether the present practice involves considerable delay in effecting the transfer on the arrival of the ordinary mail, with the result that the steamer is delayed in starting?
§ MR. A. MORLEYThe hon. Member has accurately stated the case. The present arrangement does occasionally cause delay to the passenger traffic; and I will consider whether a satisfactory plan can be adopted for sending forward 1618 the American mails specially from Kings-bridge in advance of the ordinary mail train, whenever that course may obviate material delay.