MR. WEBSTERI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is now in a position to give the House information as to the Swaziland Convention; whether it is a fact that it contemplates a Transvaal Protectorate, but excludes the idea of annexation, and whether the Swazies are secured all their existing rights; whether 1462 all Europeans resident in Swaziland on 30th April will be admitted to the full Transvaal burgher-ship, and if restrictions on the importation of Colonial produce is to be removed except as regards brandy; whether there is a second Convention contemplated, but not concluded, providing for the Charlestown Extension and the admission of the Transvaal to the Customs Union; and whether the Transvaal Republic, under the terms of this Convention, will have powers to construct a railway to Delagoa Bay?
§ MR. S. BUXTONI regret that I am not as yet in a position to make any statement on the subject, but hope to be able to do so shortly.