§ MR. DELANY (Queen's County, Ossory)I beg to ask the Postmaster-General whether he received a renewed application on behalf of the inhabitants of Raheen, Queen's county, asking, as an instalment of a former request, that at least a post office with one daily delivery should be granted to the locality; and whether, in view of the fact that the district includes the residences of local clergymen, a Roman Catholic church, two schools, and about 300 inhabitants, who are at present deprived of facilities for procuring stamps or posting letters, he will favourably consider the application.
LORD STANLEYAs I have informed the hon. Member in my letter of the 25th instant the cost of the existing postal service to Raheen is very high in proportion to the amount of correspondence, and I regret, therefore, that further facilities would not be warranted.
§ MR. DELANYI beg also to ask the Postmaster-General whether he will give a second daily delivery of letters to the inhabitants of Graigue, Camira, Upper and Lower Forest, Drina, New Mills, and Cloncannon, Mountmellick, Queen's county, as a second delivery 858 has been sanctioned to certain houses in the locality.
LORD STANLEYI have made inquiry on the question of affording a second daily delivery of letters in the district to which the hon. Member refers, but I regret to find that owing to the small number of letters for the residents, the additional expense which would necessarily be incurred in meeting their wishes would not be justified.