§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether, with a view to expedite the Stornoway mail service, he has yet acted on the suggestion contained in the Report of the Departmental Committee on the mail steamer services on the West Coast of Scotland, and urged the Highland Railway Company to dispatch the Stornoway mail immediately after its arrival at Dingwall at 11.9 a.m. instead of retaining it at that station until 11.55 a.m., as at present?
§ MR. HANBURYThe Highland Railway Company have been asked to consider whether it cannot be arranged to dispatch the train with the Stornoway and Skye mails from Dingwall immediately after the arrival of the mail train from the south, instead of waiting for the stopping train from Inverness which follows the mail; and it is hoped that in connection with the alteration of hours which must follow, on the opening of the shorter route to Inverness viâ Aviemore—probably on the 1st July next—a material reduction of the interval now occurring at Dingwall will be effected.