§ SIR GEORGE BADEN-POWELL (Liverpool, Kirkdale)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Executive in Malta have decided to abandon the partial elections which had been ordered for the purpose of filling the seats in the Malta Council of Government vacated by the resignation of six out of the fourteen elected members; whether the Council has now been dissolved, and directions issued for the holding of a general election; and, whether such election will be held under the Letters Patent of 19th March, 1888?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Baron H. de Worms, Liverpool, East Toxteth): The answer to each of my hon. Friend's questions is in the affirmative.