§ MR. HANBURY (Preston)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether any foreign stations have yet been garrisoned with Marines, especially the Falkland Islands, as suggested by the late Board of Admiralty; and whether a new South American Station has yet 1163 been formed out of the South-east Coast of America Station and the southern portion of the Pacific Station, or otherwise?
SIR U. KAY-SHUTTLEWORTHThe Falkland Islands have not been garrisoned with Marines, nor any other Foreign Station, with the exception of Esquimault. So far as I am aware, the late Board of Admiralty did not make any such suggestion, as the question assumes. A now South American Station has not been formed.