HC Deb 21 July 1890 vol 347 cc345-6
MR. JOHNSTON (Belfast, S.)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any correspondence has taken place between the Sultan of Brunei and the Colonial Authorities on the subject of recent transactions between him and Rajah Brooke; and if he will lay the correspondence upon the Table of the House?

* SIR J. FERGUSSON

Some correspondence has taken place between the Sultan of Brunei and the Colonial Authorities on the subject of transactions between him and Rajah Brooke. That correspondence is, however, incomplete, and, the subject being still under consideration, no Papers can be laid at present.

MR SEXTON

Is there any truth in the statement that Labuan is to be handed over to this country?

* SIR J. FERGUSSON

No, Sir; it is not the case.