§ SIR GEORGE BADEN-POWELLI beg to ask the Postmaster General when the Papers relating to the new West India Mail Contract will be laid upon the Table; and whether, considering the importance of the question to the different West Indian Colonies, and also to the mercantile and proprietary interests in the United Kingdom connected with the West Indies, the Governments of the Colonies, as well as these representative associations or committees, have been consulted as to the terms of the contracts for which tenders have been invited?
§ * MR. RAIKESI am unable to inform the hon. Member when the Papers to which he refers will be laid before the House. My Report on the subject is now under the consideration of the Treasury. Representations have been received and continue to arrive from the West Indian Islands interested in the question; and due attention has been given by the Government to the commercial interests involved.