approach to the bridge. These arid many other details are yet to be properly investigated, and the task should not be left merely to the mandatory inquiry by the commissioner for railway safety. It is hardly surprising that this departmental enquiry committee should have rushed in to explain away the whole accident as 'an act of god; but for the railway minister to endorse this comfortable finding, especially when the government itself has ordered a judicial enquiry into the accident, is, to say the least, premature.