§ MR. M'GHEE (Louth, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, whether a reply can now be given to the petition forwarded to him in August, 1897, by the staff of the Eastern Central District Post Offices (countermen and telegraphists)?
§ MR. HANBURYThis memorial has now been answered. Among other points the memorialists asked for an increase in the number of superior appointments, and the number of overseers was increased on the 7th instant.