MR. BRYN ROBERTS (Carnarvonshire, Eifion)I beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that Mr. Cecil Rhodes, in a speech delivered at Port Elizabeth during the late Cape election, is reported in the Press to have said that he was going to make the railway to Tanganyika, and would bring down millions of labourers and distribute them in the mines; that at Tanganyika they laboured at 2d. a day, and that they could so work mines which were not then payable; and whether this is the undertaking which Mr. Rhodes wishes the Government to guarantee?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Sir M. HICKS BEACH, Bristol, W.)I know nothing of the speech referred to by the honourable Member, but the guarantee originally asked for related to the first section of the line, which stops several hundred miles short of Lake Tanganyika.