§ MR. MACDONAI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that John Ingram, whilst digging a grave in Putney Cemetery on Tuesday, the 22nd instant, was shot in the back by one of a squad of Volunteers practising at the Wimbledon rifle range, and died from the effects yesterday; and whether, in view of the great danger to the lives of people using the common or living in the neighbourhood, he will bring the matter under the notice of His Royal Highness the Ranger, with a view to the prohibition of any further firing in so dangerous a locality?
§ * MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANThe hon. Member is evidently not aware that Wimbledon Common is not Crown property, and that the Duke of Cambridge is, therefore, not the Ranger of it, nor does such an office, so far as I know, exist. The common is, I believe, the property of the ratepayers of a district within a certain area of it, under an Act of Parliament passed in 1871. In the same Act the rights of certain Volunteer corps who had ranges on it were preserved to them.