§ Question again proposed, "That this House at its rising this day do adjourn till Thursday, 16th October."
§ MR. WYLIEasked for some information as to the steps which would be taken to increase the grants for Ben Nevis Observatory.
§ MR. SHEEHAN (Cork Co. Mid)said he desired to call attention to a matter of great importance as regarded the welfare of a large section of the Irish people. He had previously drawn attention to the very undesirable conditions under which the labourers in Ireland existed, and the right hon. Gentleman the Chief Secretary had consented to amend the Labourers Acts of Ireland. Since last Easter, however, when the right hon. Gentleman promised to introduce an amending Bill, he had never been able to obtain from him any satisfactory assurance as to when that would be done, and he could only charge him with inconsistency, his public statements being inconsistent with his public actions.
§ *SIR JOHN TUKE (Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities)complained that 1158 Scotch Members were placed in a false position by being obliged to ask for financial support for the Ben Nevis Observatory. Ben Nevis was the only high-level observatory in Scotland, and it also occupied the most westerly situation in Europe. It had been working for twelve years, and its observations were of the utmost value to science, and he urged the necessity of support being given to it in order that it should work among the army of meteorologists of the world.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Mr. SPEAKER, in pursuance of the Order of the House of the 28th day of July last, adjourned the House without Question put.
§ Adjourned accordingly at twenty-five minutes before Six o'clock till Thursday, 16th October.