§ SIR ELLIS ASHMEAD-BARTLETT (Sheffield, Ecclesall)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can state what reply has been made by the Boer Government and Volksraad to a petition recently presented to them, signed by over 30,000 non-Boer residents of the Transvaal, asking for Constitutional rights?
§ MR. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAINWe have no official information on the subject, but we understand from unofficial sources that the prayer of the petitioners was not granted.