HC Deb 11 March 1879 vol 244 c629
MR. MACDONALD

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he has appointed anyone to attend, on behalf of the Government, the inquest on Thursday at Wakefield, which is to inquire into the cause of the death of twenty-one persons who lost their lives in a pit there?

MR. ASSHETON CROSS

replied in the affirmative.