§ MR. NORRIS (Tower Hamlets, Limehouse)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, If he will state why the Special Naval Pension of £140 per annum is not awarded to Mrs. Savage, the widow of Staff Commander W. M. Savage, instead of the ordinary pension of £80 per annum; whether this officer, although serving under the Board of Trade at the time of his death, had not, before consenting to take the appointment, stipulated for and obtained official sanction, that such service should be considered as "Full Naval Service," counting towards increase of full pay, half-pay, and retirement; whether the Admiralty requested the Treasury, on 14th December, 1882, also to sanction such arrangement, and whether the Treasury granted such, 873 request by Treasury Letter of 8th January, 1883; and, if the non-award to Mrs. Savage of the Special Naval Pension of £140 a-year will be reconsidered?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON) (Middlesex, Ealing)A widow is only entitled to a special pension upon proof that her husband's death was directly attributable to extraordinary exposure or exertion on service. The circumstances attending Staff Commander Savage's death do not come within that category. I cannot re-open the question.