§ MR. CROPPERasked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether Her Majesty's Government have received any Reports or Despatches from Sir William des Vœux, relative to the mortality alleged to exist among the people of Fiji, and also to the labour questions connected with the Native administration of the Colony; and, if so, whether he would lay such Correspondence upon the Table?
§ MR. EVELYN ASHLEY,in reply, said, he hoped very shortly to lay the Papers referred to on the Table.