§ MR. WALTER M'LAREN (Cheshire, Crewe)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, having regard to the fact that it took two years to pass the Contagious Diseases Ordinance of 1889, first ordered by the Secretary of State to be passed by the Hong Kong Legislature in his Despatch of 2nd July, 1887, repealing the system-of compulsory examination of prostitutes then in force in that colony, he will take steps to secure that the Ordinance proposed for the amendment of the Ordinance of 1889 will be more expeditiously dealt with by the Colonial Legislature?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Baron H. de WORMS,) Liverpool, East ToxtethA similar question was put to me on Friday last by the hon. Member for Scarborough, and I beg to refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply which I then gave.