§ MR. J. WARD (Stoke-on-Trent)To ask Mr. Attorney-General whether his attention has been called to the facts connected with an escheat in the case of what is known as the Page Estates, and what action he proposes to take to protect and assist the privileges of the Crown in relation thereto.
(Answered by Sir John Walton.) The circumstances of this case, in which it is alleged that there has been an escheat of certain real estate to the Crown, were, in or about the year 1870, and have been repeatedly since that date, brought to the notice of the Treasury, with the result that that Department, acting under legal advice, has declined again and again, and still declines, to take any action.