§ MR. H. C. RICHARDS (Finsbury, E.)I beg to ask the hon. Member for Salford, as representing the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, on what grounds they have delayed, since November 1894, giving their sanction to the extension of the Church of St. Stephen, at Devon-port, considering that the Lord of the Manor had provided the site, and that the funds were in hand?
§ MR. LEES KNOWLES (Salford, W.)The delay referred to in this Question has not been caused by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. When application was made to them to accept a conveyance of the site, they instructed their solicitors at once to take the necessary steps for completion The draft was prepared and forwarded to Lord St. Levan's solicitors, who, after keeping it for a considerable time, have now returned it for engrossment, which will probably be completed in the course of a few days.