61. Captain CRAIGasked the Postmaster-Gentral why letters posted by the mail leaving Belfast at 5 p.m., via Dublin, which are due to be sent out for delivery in London at 7.15 a.m. the following morning, are frequently not delivered until after 10 a.m. at addresses situated within one mile and a half from the General Post Office; and whether he will explain why, although attention has been called repeatedly to these delays, they have become more frequent?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELThe delays to which the hon. Member refers have, I find, been due mainly to two causes, fog in England and the slow running of certain trains in Ireland, which has delayed the departure of the mail steamer from Kingstown. Representations have been made to the Great Southern and Western Bail-way Company of Ireland on several occasions.