§ MR. WHITWELLasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, When the subject of the advances now being made out of home funds for the war now being carried on in the interior of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope will be brought before Parliament?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERSir, I am unable to say how soon this subject can be brought before Parliament. Communications on the matter have been going on between the War Office and the Colonial Office and between the Colonial Office and the State Government. There has been very recently a change of Government at the Cape, and the Cape Parliament is about to meet. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Colonies has pressed upon the attention of the Governor at the Cape the necessity of causing this matter to be brought before the Cape Parliament as its first business, and it will, no doubt, be laid before them at the earliest opportunity. It is impossible, at the present moment, to say how soon information on the subject will be received.