§ MR. SETON-KARR (St. Helen's)asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether Her Majesty's Government would use their influence to bring the subject of State-directed Colonization before the approaching Conference of Colonial Representatives for discussion?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir HENRY HOLLAND) (Hampstead)The special Questions that are proposed for discussion at the Conference have been stated in my Predecessor's Circular Despatch of November 25 last; and, 768 unless this subject is one which, to use the words of the Circular,
In the general opinion of the Colonial Governments might be properly and usefully Drought under consideration,Her Majesty's Government would not think it desirable to depart from the conditions laid down in that Despatch. The views of Her Majesty's Government upon this important subject were fully stated by the Marquess of Salisbury, on Friday last, to the Deputation of the State-directed Colonization Association.