§ MR. HORACE PLUNKETTI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he is aware that, the Town Commissioners and inhabitants of Kingstown are much aggrieved at the withdrawal of the Kingstown Harbour Roads Bill; whether the Treasury will consent to the re-introduction of the Bill next Session; and whether it is possible to make such arrangements in the meantime as will place the inhabitants of Kingstown in the position with respect to these roads which they would have occupied if the Bill had not been opposed and consequently withdrawn?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURYThe Bill to which my hon. Friend refers was withdrawn because it belongs to a class of Measures which can only be properly treated as public Bills if they are practically unopposed. In such Bills no questions of general policy are involved, and they are merely introduced as public Bills to save the cost to the locality of promoting them as private Bills. I am not aware of any objection to the re-introduction of the Bill next Session, but the conditions I have laid down must lie held to apply to this and similar cases, and I cannot, promise to find Parliamentary time for Measures of this description.