§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTON (Tower Hamlets, Poplar)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether the Thames Iron Works was successful in its tender for a man of-war or a cruiser from among the ships recently put out to contract by the Admiralty; and, if not, what was the reason that it did not receive an order.
(Answer.) The tenders of the Thames Ironworks Company were not accepted because other tenders reached the Admiralty at the same time, the terms of which were more advantageous to the public service than those of the Thames Ironworks Company.—(Admiralty)