§ COLONEL WARING (Down, N.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the Report of the officer of the Commissioners of Irish Lights relative to the wreck of the Emily, lying on Briggs Reef, off Groomsport, County Down; whether he is aware that, in the 1830 event of a vessel stranding on Briggs; Reef at night in the vicinity of the wreck, the danger would be so great that the lifeboat crew could not venture to ', approach her; and whether, taking into consideration the extreme danger, not from the launching of the lifeboat, but from her going off to or returning from a vessel in distress, he will at once give the necessary order for the removal of the wreck in question?
§ MR. MUNDELLAUnder the Acts for the removal of wrecks in the way of lifeboat service the Board of Trade can: only deal with recommendations made by a General Lighthouse Authority. In the case referred to no such recommendation has been made. The Commissioners of Irish Lights informed the Board of Trade last May that, after consideration of the Report referred to, they were led to the opinion that the wreck did not constitute a danger to the lifeboat ser- vice.