§ SIR CHARLES WINGFIELDasked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether he will lay upon the Table of the House Copies of any Despatches that have been addressed to the Governor of New South Wales (subsequent to Letter 88 of 3rd November 1871, published in Parliamentary Paper, No. 509, of 1872), respecting the acknowledgment of the Government set up by a section of the white settlers in the Fiji Islands, as well as of the Minutes or Correspondence which have passed between the Governor of New South Wales and his Executive Council on the same subject; and, of any Instructions that may have been sent to the Naval Officer commanding in the Pacific relative to the line of conduct to be adopted by commanders of Her Majesty's vessels towards the so-called Government of the Fijis?
§ MR. KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN,in reply, said, there would be no objection to the production of the Returns mentioned in the first part of the Question. As to the other part he would communicate with the First Lord of the Admiralty, and perhaps the hon. Gentleman would repeat his Question.