§ Mr. PALMERasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will ascertain the date and cause of death of Joseph Stephenson Mitchell, aged eighteen, steward on the steamship "Heather-side," who was left in hospital and in care of the British Consul, said to be suffering from a fever, in Resario in February, 1910, and who is said to have subsequently died; will he ascertain why the Consul did not advise the young man's parents (whose address he had) of his death, which was first reported to them by a shipmate who reached this country on 5th June, 1910; and why a letter from the parents addressed to the Consul (per the Board of Trade), posted on 31st March, 1910, has not been replied to by him?
Mr. BUXTONJoseph Stephenson Mitchell, formerly of the steamship "Heatherside" is reported by His 915W Majesty's Consul at Rosario to have died in hospital in that city from the effects of typhoid fever, on 24th February, 1910. With regard to the latter part of the question, inquiries are being made, and I will inform my hon. Friend in due course of the result.