§ CAPTAIN DONELAN (Cork, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been directed to the fact that soldiers are being employed by a contractor at daily wages unloading coals at Spike Island, County Cork, thus depriving the Queenstown 1451 coalporters of work; and whether, in the interest of free labour, he will take immediate steps to put a stop to this practice?
§ * MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANI have caused inquiries to be addressed to the General Officer commanding in Cork, but have not yet received a definite reply. Meanwhile, any help the soldiers were giving has ceased.