§ MR. FRANCIS STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies why it is that no replies in connection with the Return issued last month relating to Colonial Constitutions were received from Canada or from Tasmania, although the Circular Letter to Colonial Governors was sent on the 26th of March 1888; and whether the Colonial Office took proper steps to expedite the sending of replies from those two Colonies?
§ BARON H. DE WORMSI am unable to say why Canada and Tasmania have not replied to the Circular of 26th March 1888; but they were reminded, and a reply pressed for, in a despatch dated 18th December 1888. I may add that accounts of the Constitutions of Canada and Tasmania will be found in the Colonial Office List.