§ MR. BADEN-POWELL (Liverpool, Kirkdale)asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether he can say at what date the further Papers on Zululand will be laid upon the Table; and, whether there can be included in these Papers a summary statement of the expenditure of Imperial and other public moneys in and for Zululand (including the Reserve Territory) from the termination of the Military operations in 1879 up to the present time?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. OSBORNE MORGAN) (Denbighshire, E.)The Papers to which the hon. Member alludes are in preparation; but it has been thought that it would be premature to present them to Parliament before they could include some account of the progress made by Sir Arthur Havelock, the Special Commissioner for Zulu affairs, towards a settlement of the questions which he is now discussing with the Boers in Zululand and with the Zulu Chiefs. I am in hopes, however, that it may be possible, with due regard 1288 to this object, to complete and distribute these Papers soon after Whitsuntide. They will include as complete a summary of the expenditure in and for Zululand—including the Reserve Territory—since 1879 as can be made.