§ MR. HENNIKER HEATON (Canterbury)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether his attention has been called to the inconvenience suffered by passengers from Australia in the Peninsular and Oriental mail steamships who have, through the admission on board at Aden of Bombay passengers, to undergo quarantine at Brindisi and Marseilles; and whether arrangements will be made with the Peninsular and Oriental Company which, without loss to the Company, will obviate this inconvenience, in view of the large number of Australian passengers coining to England this year?
§ * MR. HANBURYThe Postmaster General's attention has not been directed officially, either by the contractors or by the passengers concerned, to the 941 alleged inconvenience suffered by passengers on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamers, through the admission on board at Aden of Bombay passengers, to undergo quarantine at Brindisi and Marseilles. The Post master General does not see, however, what arrangements could be made by him to obviate the alleged inconvenience, and he cannot regard it as in accord with the duly of his Department to incur any expense in the matter.