§ SIR JAMES FERGUSSON (Manchester, N. E.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the four additional lighthouses contemplated at the southern end of the Red Sea are in course of erection: and, if so, by what power; when it is expected that they will be completed: whether their expenses will be defrayed by the £30,000 ceded for this purpose by Egypt from her light dues; and, whether anything has been settled as to the erection of a lighthouse at the eastern end of the Gulf of Aden.
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Lord CRANBORNE,) RochesterThe four lights in question are in course of erection by the Ottoman Government, and His Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople has been informed that the work will be actively pushed on till the hot weather sets in, by which time it is hoped that all except the Moka light will be nearly complete. The money raised in Egypt will not be used to defray the expenditure incurred. The question as to the erection of a lighthouse at the eastern end of the Gulf of Aden is still under consideration.