§ MR. NEVILLE (Liverpool, Exchange)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the British Consul at Loanda, who receives £700 a year, has made any later Report on the trade of Loanda than that for 1886–7; and if he will explain why regular information is not forwarded to the Foreign Office?
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. J. W. LOWTHER,) Cumberland, PenrithReports from Loanda were received and issued by the Foreign Office in 1888 and in 1889. In 1890 the Consul at Loanda, Mr. Annesley, was engaged in special duties in the Oil Rivers district (owing to the illness and subsequent death of Consul Hewett). In 1891 Consul Annesley resigned in consequence of ill-health. Acting Consul Brock was instructed on the 2nd of January last to send home a Report on the trade of Loanda, and he is now engaged in preparing it.