§ MR. DAVITT (Mayo, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, whether he is aware that a money order for £1, taken out at Binbrook on 27th August last by P. Kirrane, in favour of Mrs. Kirrane, Drymills, county Mayo, was paid through the Ulster Bank, Bally-haunis, on 17th September; and that Mr. Kirrane has complained that the order in question was not delivered to his wife and has been fraudulently cashed through the bank mentioned; and what steps, if any, have been taken by the Post Office authorities to discover the guilty parties to this transaction?
§ MR. HANBURYThe facts are as stated. Every possible inquiry has been made by the local police and by the Post Office authorities, and while there is no recollection of the particular letter in which the order was enclosed, and which, as is usual with Mrs. Kirrane's correspondence, was called for at the local post office, the staff there are certain that no letter so addressed has been delivered, except to Mrs. Kirrane, or some member of her family. The order is found to have been paid through the banking account of a local tradesman, who was in the habit of cashing Mrs. Kirrane's money orders for her, and whose manager, in fact, wrote her name on it at the time, as being that of the person from whom he received it.