HC Deb 10 May 1894 vol 24 c762
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.