§ *MR. W. JOHNSTON (Belfast, S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether Ids attention had been called to the fact that the Commissioners of Education in Ireland, although they observed the 17th June as a holiday, did not intend to do so on Jubilee Day; and whether he would take steps to cause June 22 to be observed as a holiday in Ireland as in England?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI find that the examinations of the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland extend from Monday 14th June, to Monday 28th June. These dates were fixed so far back as November 1896. I fear it would not now be possible for the Commissioners to consider the question of postponing the examination fixed for to-morrow.