§ SIR C. DILKE (Gloucester, Forest of Dean)On behalf of the honourable Member for Northampton (Mr. Labouchere) I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the House will have an opportunity to express its opinion as to the contemplated loan of £100,000 to the Barbados sugar planters, to meet loans that they may have incurred in consequence of possible losses by the late hurricane, before such advances are made to them; and, if so, when?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. J. CHAMBERLAIN, Birmingham, W.)It is proposed that if the Colonial Loans Fund Bill becomes law, the loans of £50,000 each to the Governments of Barbadoes and St. Vincent shall be raised under its provisions and the Bill authorising these loans will be introduced as soon as the Colonial Loans Fund Bill is disposed of.