§ CAPTAIN COLOMB (Tower Hamlets, Bow, &c.)asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether the Governments of the Colonies and Dependencies have been furnished with the evidence taken and the Report made by the Royal Commission on the defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. E. STANHOPE) (Lincolnshire, Horncastle)The evidence taken and the Report made by the Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions Abroad has, in accordance with the custom in those matters, been kept secret; but the Australasian Colonies have been furnished for their confidential use with so much of the Report as affected their interests.