§ MR. WEIR () Ross and CromartyI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade, in view of the fact that under the West Highland Railway Company 453 Guarantee Act, 1896, it was arranged that the sum of £30,000 should be paid by the Treasury to the North British Railway Company towards the cost of constructing a pier breakwater and other works at Mallaig, will he state why the breakwater has not yet been constructed.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. GERALD BALFOUR,) Leeds, CentralThis is entirely for the railway company, but I have communicated with them, and am informed that owing to the cost of the Mallaig extension of the west Highland Railway having greatly exceeded the estimate, the question of proceeding with the breakwater has been deferred.