§ ADMIRAL FIELDI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any Report has been received from our Consul or representative at Buenos Ayres relative to distressed British subjects anxious to return to this country owing to inability to obtain employment; whether he has read the accounts published in the Buenos Ayres Standard of 13th June, forwarded for his information; whether he is aware that the French Legislature has voted £40,000 to assist unemployed French people in River Plate to return home, and that the Spanish Government have taken similar action in respect of Spanish subjects; and whether the British Consul can be authorised to provide passages for a certain number of our distressed countrymen, to enable them to migrate to Canada or the United States or to return home.
§ *SIR J. FERGUSSONAs regards paragraphs 1 and 2, we have received Reports lately relative to the failure of the Naposta Colony, which Mr. Herbert, of Her Majesty's Legation, visited. Many of the colonists had arrived in the capital; some had found work, but many had not. We have not heard of any such grants by France and Spain. There are no funds at the disposal of the Foreign Office for the purpose indicated.