§ MR. SLOAN (Belfast, S.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant 237 of Ireland if ho can state why a head constable in the town of Ballynahinch, county Down, where there is one sergeant and five constables, is kept at the cost of over a hundred pounds per annum; and if he can say how many towns having a similar population have a head constable in charge.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) It is considered necessary in the public interests to retain a head constable at Ballynahinch. Head constables are stationed in many other towns similiarly circumstanced in respect to population.