§ MR. SMYTHasked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, If Copies of the Correspondence between Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Honourable Charles Gavan Duffy, Chief Secretary of Victoria, on the subject of intercolonial tariffs, will on an early day be presented to the House?
§ MR. KNATCHBULL-HUGESSENThe correspondence to which I presume the hon. Gentleman alludes would be more accurately described as a correspondence between the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Governor of Victoria. This is a portion of a larger correspondence between the Secretary of State and the Governors of all the Australian Colonies. It relates to a matter of great importance, which is now under the consideration of the Government. Until a final determination has been arrived at with respect to the subject of this correspondence, it would be obviously undesirable that it should be presented to Parliament; but, as soon as this shall be the case, there shall be no unnecessary delay in the presentation.