§ CAPTAIN COLOMB (&c.) Tower Hamlets, Bow,asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether any steps can be taken to ensure a record being kept by each Colony of the number and tonnage of steam vessels entered and cleared from and to foreign countries viâ the Suez Canal, so that information may be included in the Statistical Abstract for the several Colonial Possessions, similar to that furnished in No. 78, Statistical Abstract, British India?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Baron HENRY DE WORMS) (Liverpool, East Toxteth)Her Majesty's Government will consider how far a complete record of the nature desired can be obtained.