MR. FIELDOn behalf of the hon. Member for Waterford, I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that, in consequence of the recent Regulations of the Board of Trade as to the running of mixed trains, the time table of the Southern Railway line, which joins Clonmel with Thurles, is unsatisfactory; if the attention of the Board of Trade has been called to this unsatisfactory state of things both by the Public Boards and the Southern Railway Directors; whether the conclusion arrived at at a conference held at Kings-bridge on the 17th of March last, and attended by the officials of the Water-ford and Limerick Company and the Southern Company, and presided over by General Hutchinson, was laid before the Board of Trade; and when an answer may be expected from that body?
§ * MR. MUNDELLAYes, "Sir; the attention of the Board of Trade has been called to this matter, and they directed General Hutchinson to discuss the matter with the officials of the Companies and others. As a result, the Board came to the conclusion that some concession in the matter of mixed trains might be made in the interest of the Southern line, and they are in communication with the Waterford and Limerick Company as to how best effect can be given to that view.