§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, whether his attention has been called to a report that a mail bag from the wrecked steamer "Labrador" was observed recently by a lad while out fishing a few miles off Scarinish, in the north-west of Mull, and that he did not take the trouble to convey it ashore as no definite reward had been offered for the salvage of mails; and will he consider the expediency, in similar cases of wreck, of immediately offering rewards for the salvage of the mails?
§ MR. HANBURYThe report referred to is probably identical with one which has reached the Post Office about a boatman who professed to have seen a mail bag in the sea near Dervaig, in Mull. It is well known that persons who save mail bags are rewarded; and a considerable number of such bags cast away by the wreck of the "Labrador" have been recovered through the efforts of boat-men and fishermen. Some of the claims for reward have already been settled, and others are under consideration.