MR. LEATHAM BRIGHT (Stoke-upon-Trent)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether it is correct, as stated in the Press, that the contract for the engines of H.M.S. Blake has been given out; whether the engines are to be built to a Government specification; and, whether the makers of the engines, building to a Government specification, take upon themselves absolute responsibility in regard to their efficiency in every particular?
§ SIR HERBERT MAXWELL (A LORD of the TREASURY) (Wigton)(who replied) said: The information given by the Press as to the contract for the engines of Her Majesty's ship Blake, to which the hon. Gentleman alludes, is correct.