MR. WEBSTER (St. Pancras, E.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is in a position to give the House any information as to the acute position of affairs reported from Capetown in regard to Swaziland; whether, after consultation with the Indunas of the nation, the Queen Regent of Swaziland has definitely refused to sign any document which would authorise the Transvaal Government occupying that country; and if the British Representative has declined to give the Queen Regent a letter authorising her to proceed to England to lay her case before Her Majesty, or the Government?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. S. BUXTON, Tower Hamlets, Poplar): I do not think that, under the existing circumstances of the case, it would be expedient for me to make any statement on the subject.