§ CAPTAIN DONELANOn behalf of the hon. Member for South Down, I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, with reference to the unsatisfactory postal services with Killough and Ardglass, County Down, whether he will now make inquiry from the County Down Railway Company with the view of arranging upon reasonable terms for an earlier postal delivery and a later despatch at these towns.
§ MR. HANBURYThe arrival of the morning mail at Killough takes place at 7.10 a.m., and at Ardglass at 7.35 a.m., a car from Downpatrick being used for the purpose. No advantage would 461 arise from transferring this mail to the railway, as the earliest train reaches Killough at 9.9 a.m. and Ardglass at 9.19 a.m. The question of employing the railway for the despatch of the evening mail from Killough and Ardglass, and also for the midday mails, inward and outward, is under consideration, and as soon as a decision is arrived at the hon. Member shall be informed.
§ THE CIVIL LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY (Mr. A. CHAMBERLAIN,) Worcester, E.The facts are as stated in the Question, but the Admiralty have no power to award pensions or gratuities to the widows of men who die in the Naval Service in the ordinary course of Nature.