§ Mr. NANNETTIasked the Postmaster-General why the terms of the recent circular, which directed that an officer charged with an offence should be afforded every opportunity of defending himself are not carried out in the Dublin telegraph office; is he aware that the request of an officer charged with slow slip writing for a sheet of news which he had written, and which was of material evidence in defence, was refused and the officer punished; and will he see that his instructions in the matter referred to are carried out in future?
§ Mr. SYDNEY BUXTONThe sheet for which the officer in question asked was not the sheet to which the charge of slow writing referred. As, however, the request to be furnished with the previous item has been renewed, I see no objection to its being complied with in order to remove any possible ground for the idea that full opportunity for disproving the charge was not allowed, and I have given instructions accordingly.