MR. GIBSON BOWLESI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he can state on what ground a grant of money is asked for Arklow Harbour, and what the character of a Royal harbour imports?
§ *SIR J. T. HIBBERT£3,500 was granted by the late Government towards £7,000 required for building a new breakwater, and was voted last year. It was found impossible to spend more than £2,000 last year, and therefore £1,500 1877 has to be re-voted. It is not a new grant. Arklow is not now a Royal harbour, and there is a mistake in the description of it in the Estimates. A Royal harbour is a harbour which is the property of the Government.