§ MR. MACVEAGHI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state the difference in amount between the highest tenders and the lowest tenders in the meat contracts recently entered into by the Committee of the Belfast Lunatic Asylum, by the Belfast Poor Law Guardians, and by the Committee of the Antrim Asylum; whether he is aware that parties interested in the accepted tenders have had previous contracts for other supplies cancelled by the Belfast Poor Law Board, and have been fined for breaches of contract; and whether the local Government Board has power to withhold its sanction to the decision of the bodies named.
§ MR. WYNDHAMI have no information on the subject of the first and second paragraphs. The reply to the last paragraph is in the negative.