§ MR. MACVEAGH (Down, S.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is 1105 aware that all the tramways authorised by the Belfast Corporation's Act of 1899 have been completed with the exception of that to Greencastle and Whitehouse; whether he is aware that the requisite consent of the Belfast Street Tramways Company to the making of this extension has been refused; and, in view of the results of these powers having been placed in the hands of the Tramway Company, will the Government introduce a short Bill to eliminate the necessity for the company's consent to extend the time for completing this line.
(Answer.) The Government has no information whether the company has withheld its consent to the extension of the line in question, or whether the other lines have been completed. The matter is one between the corporation and the company, and does not call for any intervention on the part of the Government. The reply to the concluding inquiry is, therefore, in the negative.—(Irish Office.)