§ SIR WILFRID LAWSONasked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether the statement which appeared in The Standard of Saturday, to the effect that the Cape Government had abandoned their proposal for a Conference of the several South African Colonies and States on the subject of Confederation, was correct, as the Previous Question had been carried in the Cape Parliament without a division?
MR. GRANT DUFFIn reply to the hon. Baronet I have to say that the news which appeared in the morning papers of Saturday is officially confirmed.