SIR THOMAS ESMONDS (Kerry, W.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if the United States Government has been approached in reference to the shipwrecked American sailors, seventeen in number, who were saved from the wreck of the "Ethel B. Jacobs" schooner, of Gloucester, Mass., on the coast of Kerry in October of last year; and whether the claim of Mr. Darnel Keating, of Derrynane, in respect of their maintenance and of money advanced to them to enable them to reach Queenstown has as yet been met; and if not, how soon will the matter be settled.
§ * THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. BRODRICK, Surrey, Guildford)The claim of Mr. D. Keating, of Derrynane, was put forward through Mr. D. O'Connell, 1369 J.P., at the end of last year; and Her Majesty's Ambassador at Washington was at once requested to bring it to the notice of the United States Government, with a view to their taking the proper steps to obtain payment. No report has as yet been received from Lord Pauncefote, but his Excellency's attention was again called to the matter on the 30th of March.