§ MR. THOMAS B. CURRAN (Donegal, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, seeing that the Royal assent was given to The Barba does 1278 Contempt of Court Act, 1891, under which all cases of contempt, except in facie curiœ, must be tried by a jury and a judge other than the one who may be aggrieved; and that, on the 19th May, 1898, Her Majesty, by Order in Council, assented to a similar measure passed in the Leeward Islands, he would instruct the Governors of the Windward Islands and the adjoining Crown Colonies under the control of the Colonial Office to pass a law on the same lines, so as to make legislation on the subject uniform in the West Indies.
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAINI recognise the convenience of uniformity of legislation on the subject in the West Indian Colonies, and I will bring the matter under the consideration of the Governors of the Colonies referred to.