MR. GORSTasked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether any part of the amount (£100,000) which the Transvaal Government engaged to pay to Her Majesty's Government within the financial year 1882-3, and which was reduced by consent to £50,000, has yet been paid?
§ MR. EVELYN ASHLEYThe answer to this Question, Sir, would be, No; but I may add that, as it would be convenient that the House should be accurately informed of what has passed and happened in connection with this Transvaal Debt, all the recent Correspondence relating to it shall now be laid on the Table as a separate Paper.
MR. GORSTWill the hon. Member say whether Her Majesty's Government have any expectation that this sum will be shortly or ever paid?
§ MR. EVELYN ASHLEYAccording to the information received by the Government, there is at present no money with which to defray the liability.