§ SIR A. ROLLITI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any authorised Report of the proceedings of the Ottawa Inter-Colonial Congress will be furnished to the Government and to Members of this House, and will the Earl of Jersey's Report to the Government also be printed and circulated?
§ MR. S. BUXTONLord Jersey will in due course make a Report on the subject of his Mission, but until it has been received and considered it is impossible to make any statement in regard to it. It is understood that a shorthand report was taken of the proceedings of the conference, but there has not yet been time for any Papers on the subject to reach England.
§ MR. S. BUXTONUntil we get Lord Jersey's Report we cannot say.
§ MR. W. JOHNSTON (Belfast, S.)I should like to know whether the Report of the Colonial Conference will be submitted to Members of this House?
§ MR. S. BUXTONWhen we know the nature of that conference, and how far it may have been confidential, I shall be in a better position to answer that question.