§ * SIR ELLIS ASHMEAD-BARTLETTI 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 CHAMBERLAINI have no official information, but I have learned unofficially that the Petition has not been granted.