§ MR. BELLAIRSI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Homo Department why the Report of His Majesty's Inspector of Explosives of 6th November, 1906, concerning an explosion which occurred in the County of Pembroke, was not issued until November, 1907, after the adjournment of Parliament.
§ MR. GLADSTONEThe Report referred to was kept back while certain proceedings against Messrs. Kynoch were sub judice and pending the settlement which I explained to the House on the 27th June last. Much correspondence ensued in connection with the terms of the settlement; and it was not until the end of October that it was deemed proper to issue the Report. The delay had no connection with the adjournment of Parliament.