§ MR. JOHN CAMPBELL (Armagh, S.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that a sorting clerk and telegraphist named M'Clusker, stationed at Armagh, has been for a number of years subjected to discomfort through the action of certain of his immediate superior officers, and that in at least one case brought against him and for which he was punished, the preponderance of expert evidence was on the side of M'Clusker; and, if so, whether he will make personal inquiries into the whole of the facts of the difficulties between M'Clusker and his superiors.
(Answered by Lord Stanley.) I presume that the hon. Member's Question refers to Mr. R. J. M'Cusker (not M'Clusker), a sorting clerk and telegraphist at the Armagh Post Office. I have no reason to think that Mr. M'Cusker has been subjected to discomfort through the action of certain of his immediate superior officers, nor am I prepared to reopen the disciplinary case to which the hon. Member appears to refer, seeing that it occurred in 1897.