§ SIR G. CAMPBELLI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the statement in the Colonial office List for 1890, page 133, that so lately as 1888 the annual value of the imports into Heligoland was, from the United Kingdom £305, from elsewhere £30,500, may be taken to be the correct outcome of the official Returns: and if he can explain whether, and under what circumstances, there has since been such a change that now the imports into Heligoland are almost wholly from the United Kingdom?
BARON H. DR WORMSI regret to find that there was an error in the information supplied to me by the Department on this subject which I gave to the House on Monday last. The mistake appears to have been caused by confusing the Returns of imports from the United Kingdom with those of imports from other countries. The matter does not appear to be of much importance; but I may add that it is not possible, from the figures, to say how much of the imports professedly coming from Germany are goods originally shipped from English ports.