§ MR. DILLWYNasked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether it is intended to continue Sir Bartle Frere in his post as Governor of the Cape Colonies?
MR. GRANT DUFFIn reply to my hon. Friend, I have to say that Sir Bartle Frere is now engaged in work of an entirely different kind from that on which he was engaged when the events occurred which led to the debate of March, 1879. Some time after that debate Sir Garnet Wolseley was appointed High Commissioner for Natal, the Transvaal, and all the adjoining territories north and south of those Colonies, including, of course, Zululand. His powers are continued to Sir George Colley, who was appointed by the late Government, and who will proceed to South Africa on the 28th. As regards the Cape Colony, Her Majesty's Government think it expedient that Sir Bartle Frere should remain for the present for the purpose of the work on which he is now specially engaged—namely, the promotion of a confederation of the South African Colonies.