§ CAPTAIN DONELAN (Cork, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he can say why Mr. Andrew D. Murray, late of Her Majesty's Customs, has been refused an opportunity of personally stating his case at an inquiry, and refuting the allegations brought against him, and will he be given such an opportunity; on what grounds have the Board of Customs declined to afford Mr. Murray the benefit of the Treasury Minute of the 27th August, 1889, which provides for the re-instatement of an officer to suitable duty upon restoration to health; and, will the salary due to Mr. Murray, from 8th February to 15th September, 1893, be paid to him?
§ * MR. HANBURYI beg to refer the hon. and gallant Member to an answer given by my predecessor on the 10th May, 1894, which ran as follows:—
No salary is due to Mr. Andrew D. Murray, formerly boatman in the Customs. He had been continuously absent from duty on account of illness since the 24th September, 1892, and his pay ceased from the 8th February, 1893. He was discharged from the service with the gratuity for which his service qualified him, on the ground that he was medically certified to be incapable of performing his duties. There is no intention to re-employ him.Mr. Murray was finally discharged from the service, and the Treasury Minute quoted gives him no such right to re-employment as is assumed in the question. There is, therefore, no case for an inquiry.