§ MR. JAMES O'KELLY (Roscommon, N.)I beg to ask the Postmaster-General whether the Post Office authorities are about to establish a now telegraph office in a public-house in Keadue, county Roscommon; and whether, in view of the Post Office regulations against having an office upon premises licensed for the sale of intoxicants, he can state the reasons for a departure from the regulations in this case; and whether other and more suitable premises cannot be obtained in the village
§ MR SYDNEY BUXTONThe Post Office at Keadue, to which the telegraph system is about to be extended, is in the licensed premises in which the Post Office business has been conducted for the last twenty-six years. I am not aware of the reasons for which an exception to the usual rule was sanctioned when this office was opened; but as the sub-postmistress is prepared to provide a suitable office with a separate entrance, I do not, under the circumstances, propose to remove the office to other premises.