§ MR. MACDONALDasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been drawn to the evidence given by Mr. Greaves, the manager of the Stanley Colliery, when under examination as to the cause of the explosion that killed twenty-one men, where he stated that he complied with the terms of the Mines Act, 1872, as to daily supervision, when he received simply the reports of the deputies and others; and, whether, if such be an incorrect view, he will instruct the inspectors to make known it is so?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, he had already taken steps with the view of making the Inspectors aware of the incorrectness of the view stated.