§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, in view of the fact that, on the 22nd October, 1900, Crown salmon fishings ex adverso, the southern to the north boundary of the lands of Flowerburn, in the parish of Rosemarkie, Ross-shire, were leased to James Douglas Fletcher, Esquire, for ten years from Martinmas, 1900, at an annual rental of £1, will he state whether the fact that a lease of these fishings was open to public tender was advertised in the Press; and, if so, will he state on, what dates, and in what papers, the advertisements appeared.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,) Worcestershire, E.An advertisement as to the letting by public tender of various salmon fishings belonging to the Crown in Scotland, including those referred to in the Question, was inserted in the Scotsman on 2nd. 9th, 13th, and 23rd June, 1900; in the Glasgow Herald on 8th, 15th, and 22nd June; in the People's Journal on 8th June: and in the People's Weekly News on 15th June. The advertisement was also at about the same time inserted in various local papers published in each of the Counties in which the salmon fishings advertised were situate, including the following, viz:—the Dingwall Journal on 8th and 15th June; the Dingwall North Star on 14th and 21st June; the Dingwall Northern Weekly on 7th, 14th, and 21st June; the Inverness Chronicle on 13th June: the Inverness Courier on 8th June; and the Invergordon Times on 20th June.