§ MR. WHITELEY (Stockport)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, seeing that Natal merchants and traders have largely invested capital in Eastern Pondoland and upon the borders, and that the trade with Eastern Pondoland has hitherto been carried on almost entirely from Natal as a basis, any provision is included in the terms of annexation of Eastern Pondoland by the Cape Colony which shall prevent harsh and unnecessary restrictions or regulations designed to, or having the effect of, diverting unjustly the Natal trade to the Cape Colony?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OK STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. S. BUXTON,) Tower Hamlets, PoplarThe annexation of Pondoland to the Cape will carry with it the usual consequences, fiscal and other, unless modified by agreement between the Ministers of the Cape and Natal, between whom the Secretary of State cannot interfere.
§ MR. WHITELEYHas a Customs House already been established, as announced in The Times?
§ MR. S. BUXTONI am not sure as to that.