§ SIR ELLIS ASHMEAD-BARTLETTI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) whether the Boer Volksraad have passed a Resolution repudiating the suzerainty of the Queen; and (2) whether President Kruger has addressed a dispatch to Her Majesty's Government repudiating the suzerainty?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIESI have no information on the first question, and as to the second no such dispatch has been received.
§ SIR ELLIS ASHMEAD-BARTLETTHas the High commissioner received one?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIESNot that I know of.