HC Deb 28 June 1880 vol 253 c969
SIR WILFRID LAWSON

asked 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 DUFF

In reply to the hon. Baronet I have to say that the news which appeared in the morning papers of Saturday is officially confirmed.