§ CAPTAIN NORTON (Newington, W.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that a, number of operating telegraphists in the Central Telegraph Office are in the possession of papers issued by the Civil Service Commissioners which hold out prospects of obtaining a salary of £190 per annum; and whether, seeing that a number of these men have been kept at a salary of £160 per annum for several years, and that he has now decided to promote forty men from £160 to the higher salary, he will state the number of men left who were promised the prospect of £190 per annum, and when this prospect is likely to be realised by them.
(Answered by Lord Stanley.) I have already fully dealt with this matter in my Answers to the hon. Member's Questions of the 2nd† and 7th† March and 5th† and 17th§ April, and I can only add that the prospects of the tele-
† See (4) Debates, cxlii., 183, 561.‡ See (4) Debates, cxliv., 441.§ See (4) Debates, cxlv., 289.854 graphists are now much better than they were during the period when the notice; referred to were issued.