§ MR. HOGANI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Her Majesty's Government has received any official confirmation of the statement of the Samoan correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, 11th February, that Baron Cederkranz, Chief Justice of Samoa, had petitioned the King of Sweden, by whom he had been appointed under the provisions of the Berlin Treaty, for permission to return to Sweden, as he was convinced that the aforesaid Treaty was utterly unworkable.
§ SIR E. GREYBaron Cederkranz is understood to have intimated to the Swedish Government his intention of resigning his post, but we have no information of his having addressed a Petition to the King.