§ CAPTAIN DONELAN (Cork, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether he will explain why, upon the yacht "Bona" (which recently arrived at Queenstown to sail for the Kind's Cup) proceeding to take up her moorings at one of the Admiralty buoys, a message was at once despatched from the Guardship ordering her off, in view of the fact that there are at present some ten vacant Admiralty buoys in Cork Harbour; and whether he will give the matter his consideration, and take steps to afford the yacht "Bona," and the other competing yachts visiting 551 Queenstown, the facilities which are granted under similar circumstances in all home waters.
§ MR. PRETYMANThe yacht "Bona" arrived at Queenstown without her owner, and probably through ignorance of the Admiralty Regulations on the subject, which are the same for Queenstown as for other Dockyard ports, she took a special buoy which is not available for private vessels except with written permission. The "Bona" was subsequently given another buoy, and there is no ground for the suggestion that the facilities granted to yachts at other Dockyard ports are being withheld at Queenstown.
§ CAPTAIN DONELANIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that this yacht won the King's Cup yesterday?
§ No answer was returned.]