§ MR. PICTONI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will acquaint the House as to the nature of the proposed changes in the administration of the Oil Rivers District, which the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs informed the Aborigines Protection Society to be in contemplation last July, and which it is reported are now to be carried out by Major W. C. Macdonald on his appointment as Consul at Old Calabar?
§ SIR J. FERGUSSONThe details are not yet settled. The principle will be a continuance of Consular administration, with a sufficient staff to perform the necessary duties.