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and let the hon. Member know the result.

MR. HAYDEN: I will put another question on the subject.

STROKESTOWN WORKHOUSE. LAND OUT OF CULTIVATION. MR. HAYDEN: I beg to ask the MR. M. BIDDULPH (Herefordshire, Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant Ross): I beg to ask the President of the of Ireland (1) whether it is in accordance Board of Agriculture whether it would with the regulations governing such be possible to obtain a Return of the appointments that Dr. Dillon, J.P., Dis- acreage of land thrown out of cultivation pensary Medical Officer, and Medical in England, and also of the lands held Officer of Strokestown Workhouse, should in hand by the owners (other than home canvas for proxy and other votes at the farms), together with the rates and taxes recent election of Poor Law Guardians; payable on the same? (2) whether this is the same gentleman whose conduct in his dual capacity of doctor and magistrate was censured last year; and (3) what steps he proposes to

take in reference to his action?

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*MR. HERBERT GARDNER : There are no existing statistics from which the proposed Return could be compiled, and any special statistical inquiries would be attended with considerable difficulty MR. J. TULLY said, that before the and expense. The subject is one, howright hon. Gentleman answered the ever, which has naturally received contion he desired to know whether, as the sideration at the hands of the Royal first paragraph of the question assumed, Commission, whose publications when without asserting, that the gentleman complete will, I understand, throw much referred to had done the acts complained light upon it, and who are now engaged of, the right hon. Gentlemen had received in making an examination of the facts from that gentleman a telegram, a copy in particular districts. of which he (Mr. Tully) had got, and which stated

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PARISH MEETINGS.

*MR. E. STRACHEY (Somerset, S.): I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether a chairman of a parish meeting in a parish having no Parish Council will have to be re

elected this year; and whether a parish meeting can elect a vice-chairman ?

MR. SHAW-LEFEVRE: The first

chairman of a parish meeting in a parish having no Parish Council will retire in April 1896. Hence it will not be necessary that a chairman should be elected this year. A parish meeting has no power to elect a vice-chairman.

*MR. J. MORLEY: I cannot answer the question put by my hon. Friend, but I shall bear these facts in mind. With regard to the question on the Paper, no complaints have been made to the Local Government Board with reference to the alleged canvassing for votes on the part of Dr. Dillon. There is nothing in the Board's Regulations bearing on the matter, but they have always informed Union Officers that they do not consider they should interfere in Poor Law Elections beyond exercising their right to vote, and their privilege of nominating candidates. (2) The Board have no official record as to the alleged censure on this gentleman last year. (3) The question has been referred to the Clerk of the Union, who has been asked if he has received any information as to the arrangement of the statutory list of charges made against Dr. Dillon. voters, and by whom is this to be MR. HAYDEN: I beg to ask the carried out; and whether, with regard to right hon. Gentleman whether, in reply second and subsequent elections, a to a question of mine last year, he did County Council is entitled to fix the not express a strong disapproval of the number of polling places in a parish, conduct of Dr. Dillon? and give instructions to the assessors to arrange the list of voters accordingly?

*MR. J. MORLEY: I do not remember.

PARISH POLLING PLACES. *MR. W. J. MAXWELL (Dumfriesshire): I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether it is competent for a returning officer, in the case of a parish not divided into wards, to arrange to have two polling places in a parish, and whether the appointment of two polling places in a parish necessitates

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SIR GEORGE TREVELYAN: If in this new direction in which the the polling places in a parish are in- Government is very anxious to move. creased, the voters whose names appear MR. RENSHAW: I beg to ask the upon the Register as voting at a single Secretary for Scotland how it is proposed polling station, and generally in alpha- to constitute the Local Committees probetical order, must be distributed for vided for in Article 91 of the new voting purposes according to the new Scotch Code; and whether he can state polling place or places. The returning what provisions it is proposed to make officer has no power over the Register in order to secure that the Queen's which became final upon the 28th of students, in respect of whom the annual February. It appears, therefore, to be grant is to be given, will become teachers, impossible at this date to add to the as the provisions in respect of grants in existing polling places. It will clearly Article 86 do not seem to apply in the be possible for a County Council to case of Queen's students? arrange for an addition to the present polling stations where necessary before the next election, and to instruct the assessor to divide the list accordingly. *CAPTAIN HOPE: I wish to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether there is anything in the Local Government Act of last year which would prevent the County Council making the same arrangement for Parish Council elections as is customary in parishes for School Board elections, whereby there is frequently more than than one polling-place in a parish?

SIR GEORGE TREVELYAN : I will see whether that is the case.

THE SCOTCH EDUCATION CODE.

SIR GEORGE TREVELYAN: Full instructions as to the duties of the Local Committees will be given in a Circular which will be issued in due course. The constitution of any committee proposed by any university or university college which desires to avail itself of the scheme will be carefully considered. Article 97 provides that Queen's students must sign a declaration that they intend to adopt and follow the profession of teacher. This rule is the same as is applied in England and Wales, where great advantage is taken of the facilities which this year, for the first time, are to be extended to Scotland.

MR. RENSHAW: I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether, under MR. C. B. RENSHAW (Renfrew, Article 70 (4) of the new Scotch Code, W.): I beg to ask the Secretary for it is intended to limit the schools from Scotland whether it is intended, under which pupil teachers may be examined the new Education Code, to dispense for leaving certificates to those in which with the University preliminary exami- secondary education is given; and, if so, nation in the case of all Queen's students whether he would re-consider this proattending the Scottish Universities; and vision of the Code, with a view to whether it will be possible to insist on admitting to this examination, at suitable this examination in the case of such centres, the pupil teachers from any day Queen's students, as a rule, allowing schools? what is contemplated in the Circular of 4th March to be a temporary provision, rules as to the admission of candidates to applying only in the case of a college, the leaving certificate examination are making special application and satisfy not laid down in the Code. It is uning any special conditions which desirable to give to that examination may be laid down by the Education Department?

SIR GEORGE TREVELYAN: It is intended that the University preliminary examination should be dispensed with only in cases where special circumstances are shown to exist. As is explained on page 5 of the Circular, we hope that the dispensation now allowed may be only temporarily necessary; but to insist everywhere rigidly on such a requirement would discourage the first efforts

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anything of a professional character. But we are willing to consider applications for admission on behalf of pupil teachers in schools without secondary departments, provided that they can attend at some centre where the examination is held.

THE LEE-METFORD RIFLE.

MR. J. G. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty): I beg to ask the Secretary of

State for War how many Mark I. Lee-
Metford magazine rifles, fitted with the
original defective bolt-head, have been
recalled; how many are
now in the
hands of the troops; and when it is
intended to call in all the Mark I.
pattern?

*MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN: The tenders for meat for the Dublin Garrison, like those for other stations, will be for both fresh and refrigerated meat. The conditions prescribed do not amount to a preference for foreign meat, but they admit it into restricted compe*MR. W. WOODALL: It is not tition with home supplies. This is not a admitted that the bolt-head in Mark I. departure from the general system, but is defective. In the original issue there an application of the general system to was a defective screw, but that having the Dublin Garrison. Several military been replaced, no further cause of com- abattoirs were established many years plaint has arisen. In the Mark II. ago, chiefly to secure the efficiency of rifle an improved bolt is used, but the butchers for field service, and for the inoriginal bolt-head is quite serviceable. struction of officers in connection with Therefore no rifles have been recalled on meat supplies. These purposes have account of the bolt-head, and it is not been attained, and a sufficient supply proposed to recall any, or to alter the rifles of Mark I. (now known in consequence of certain other alterations as Mark I.*) which are in store.

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SCIENCE AND ART STUDENTS. MR. W. FIELD: I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he state the comparative attendance of Irish and English Science and Art students attending the classes in connection with the Science and Art Department during the past six years?

MR. A. H. D. ACLAND: I am unable to give the information in the form of average attendance, because no figures of that kind have been tabulated. The total number of students under instruction in England in 1887-8 was 140,003, and in Ireland 14,794. The corresponding figures for 1892-3 the last figures published-were 258,754 and 14,055. I shall be glad to give the hon. Member a table showing the figures for the six years 1887-8 to 1892-3 inclusive.

DUBLIN GARRISON.

MR. W. FIELD: I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether the proposed tenders for meat supplies to the troops stationed in Dublin for the six months commencing 1st June, 1895, are to be for refrigerated beef and frozen mutton; whether he is aware that such conditions amount to a preference for foreign meat to the exclusion of native produce; whether there are any sufficient grounds for departing from the existing practice; and whether, if the facts be as stated, he would revert to the existing system?

of military butchers can be kept efficient with a smaller number of abattoirs, while the instruction of officers in judging meat is specially provided for. Abattoirs are expensive, and the contract system has recently been reverted to at PortsThe mouth with satisfactory results.

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course is proposed for Dublin, where the decision has been hastened by the fact that if the abattoir had been retained a large expenditure would have been necessary for its reconstruction.

MR. W. FIELD asked whether it was not the fact that the existing system had given satisfaction to the military authorities of Dublin?

*MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN : I do not think there has been any positive dissatisfaction with the present system; but it is believed that the other system of doing away with abattoirs and throwing ourselves on the public be better, for the service in other places. trade is better, and has been found to

*MR. T. GIBSON BOWLES (Lynn Regis) asked what proportion refrigerated and frozen meat bore to fresh meat in the supplies?

*MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN : About 60 per cent., or half and half. I cannot state exactly what it is; but there is a certain fixed percentage which cannot be exceeded.

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was very elaborately inquired into three what arrangements the Government of or four years ago, and I think we had better leave it where it stands.

India make to give a hearing to the annual representations of that body?

SIR EDWARD GREY: The Secretary of State has not seen the article to which the hon. Member refers, and is therefore unable to give any opinion upon its contents.

EAST BRISTOL ELECTION.

TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. MR. T. SEXTON (Kerry, N.): I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1) if he can state why the Reid Exhibitions in Trinity College for Kerry students have not been awarded every year since 1886, the Reid MR. R. G. WEBSTER (St. Pancras, prizes for Kerry monitors having been E.): I beg to ask the President of the awarded annually throughout the inter- Local Government Board whether his vening period; (2) how long part 2 of attention has been called to the fact that the Reid bequest scheme has been in the recent declaration of the poll at the operation; (3) to how many students East Bristol election was inaccurate to the Reid Exhibitions in Trinity College the number of 50 votes recorded for one have been awarded, and what is their of the candidates, and that this mistake religious persuasion; (4) whether those had to be subsequently corrected; and if students were trained in the Marlborough he will issue a Local Government Board Street Training College; (5) and whether Order as to the counting of votes it was on the result of their answering at elections to prevent or diminish in this College that the Reid Exhibitions inaccuraces ? were awarded to them?

MR. SHAW-LEFEVRE : I have seen a report in the newspapers to the effect that at the East Bristol election 50 spoiled voting papers were inadvertently added to the total votes of one of the candidates, but that the mistake was discovered and corrected. The

to issue any order as to the counting of votes at Parliamentary elections.

ST. ANDREW'S INFANTS SCHOOL,
LOWESTOFT.

MR. J. MORLEY: (1) The Reid Exhibitions in Trinity College, Dublin, are to enable students of the County Kerry, who have successfully passed the final examination at the close of their course of training in the Marlborough Street Training College to matriculate Local Government Board have no power in Trinity College and to pass on, without dropping a year, to the Arts Degree. Only two Exhibitions are available concurrently, and as the course extends over four years it would not, I am informed, be possible to award the exhibi- *MR. H. S. FOSTER (Suffolk, Lowestions annually. (2) Candidates are toft): I beg to ask the Vice President of recommended by the Professors of the Committee of Council on Education, Marlborough Street College, and 1894 with regard to the fact that the senior was the first year in which the Professors Chief Inspector has now visited the St. were able to recommend any candidate Andrew's Infants School, Lowestoft, and as fulfilling the conditions. (3-4) Exhi- has reported that the marching space is bitions have been awarded to two sufficient, and that the school is very students, one of whom is a Roman fairly equipped except as to some of the Catholic and the other a Protestant, and both were trained in the Marlborough Street College. (5) The reply to the last paragraph is in the affirmative.

desks, whereas the Local Inspector had reported that the equipment was unsatisfactory, and that the marching space was insufficient, and has also recommended that the school managers were THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS. entitled to the portion of the grant withSIR W. WEDDERBURN: I beg to held (£24 18s.), whether the Department ask the Secretary of State for India has paid the managers the sum of whether his attention has been drawn £24 18s. so withheld; and, if not, for to an article by the right hon. Sir R. Garth, late Chief Justice of Bengal, in the last number of the Law Magazine, as to the value of the Indian National Congress; and whether he will state Mr. Campbell-Bannerman.

what reason it is still withheld; if he can state who is responsible at the Education Department for the refusal in the first instance to send down the Chief Inspector in response to the appeal of

the managers; whether he has taken, or intends to take, any action with regard to Her Majesty's Inspector; and whether he has taken, or proposes to take, any steps at the Department to prevent a repetition of such circumstances in the case of any voluntary school appealing to the Department against the report of the Inspector?

MR. A. H. D. ACLAND: The additional grant referred to in the question was paid on the 10th January. No request was made by the managers for the Chief Inspector or any other Inspector to be sent, and, therefore, no such request was refused.

*MR. H. S. FOSTER: The right hon. Gentleman has not answered the last part of the question as to who is responat the Department, and whether he intends to take any action in reference to the Inspector?

MR. ACLAND: Nobody in the Department is responsible if no appeal has been made to the Department, and no appeal refused. I answered that question practically the other day.

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SIR GEORGETREVELYAN: During the 301 days the Vigilant has been at the disposal of the Fishery Board she has been at sea 213 days. On 12th July last she captured the trawler Marion S.D. 29, fishing illegally in the estuary of the Clyde, the master was fined £20 with the option of 60 days imprisonment for illegal trawling, and £5 for infringing the lettering and numbering regulations, and his net was forfeited.

which left the Upper Ubanghi for the Nile waterway some nine months ago?

SIR EDWARD GREY: We do not know that any French expedition has left for the Nile waterway.

ALDERNEY.

MR. HENNIKER HEATON: I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether, seeing that telegraphic communication with the Island of Alderney has now been interrupted for more than six months, the Post Office Department has made any attempt in that period to repair the broken cable; whether he is aware that, on Friday, the 22nd instant, a wrecked on the coast of Alderney, and steamship of 2,000 tons burden was that, owing to the interruption of the cable service, the crew had no means of communicating with the owners or with their friends until Sunday evening, the 24th instant, when they reached Guernhim that great indignation prevails in sey; whether it has been reported to Alderney at the persistent neglect to repair the cable; and whether he will order the immediate execution of the work?

MR. ARNOLD MORLEY: In reply to a question asked by the hon. Member on the 11th ultimo, I explained some of the difficulties which had hindered the repair of the Alderney cable, and stated that the cable ship had unfortunately been in collision whilst actually proceeding to the work. She started again last Friday for Alderney; and now only awaits favourable weather to carry out the work.

THE MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAY.

COLONEL NOLAN (Galway, N.): I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that for the last three weeks the Midland Great Western Railway Company have never had sufficient supply of wagons at Galway, though remonstrated with in the strongest terms by every trader in town; and that upon the fair day of Galway, 21st instant, FRANCE AND CENTRAL AFRICA. there were neither wagons for goods or *SIR E. ASHMEAD - BARTLETT cattle, and the latter were injured by (Sheffield, Ecclesall): I beg to ask the standing all day in the rain; and if the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Government will introduce a short Bill Affairs whether he can give any infor- to give senders a remedy, if, after long mation as to the French Expedition notice, their goods will not be carried? VOL. XXXII. [FOURTH SERIES.]

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