MR. PAGETasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he will take into consideration the advisability of giving to local authorities power by Statute to grant pensions to widows of police constables who have been killed in the execution of their duty?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, he hoped his hon. Friend would not infer from his not giving a direct answer that he did not deem the Question worthy of consideration. A Committee had been appointed the year before last to consider the whole subject of the superannuation of the police, and had since been re-appointed, and he thought it would be the wiser course to leave in their hands for the present the point which had just been mentioned, and to wait for their opinion upon it.