§ MR. WEIRTo ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether the Admiralty have yet decided on the compensation to be granted to the young girl who resides with her widowed mother at Saltburn, Ross-shire, and who was injured and permanently crippled by gunners from H.M.S. "Cæsar" during gun practice in the summer of 1906.
(Answered by Mr. McKenna.) The young girl referred to was accidentally struck on the leg by a fragment of a shell. The medical evidence available at present points to the probability of there being no permanent injury. It has been decided to offer as compensation a sum of £80, on the understanding that the girl will again be examined by a medical board in June, 1909, when the case will be further considered.