§ MR. STANLEY LEIGHTONasked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether the statement, that there was a secret understanding between Sir Evelyn Wood and the Boers to the effect that Her Majesty's troops would not occupy a portion of the Queen's territory in Natal called Lang's Nek, is correct?
MR. GRANT DUFFThere was no secret understanding, but a distinct public agreement announced to the Colonial Office by a telegram which arrived on the 22nd of March, and was communicated to Parliament in the South African Papers, marked 2,837, where the hon. Member will find the statement exactly as made to us by Sir Evelyn Wood upon page 29.