MR. BRYN ROBERTS (Carnarvonshire, Eifion)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether Mr. John Barclay Lloyd, late of the City Imperial Volunteers, has been recently appointed Crown Prosecutor, or to some other, and what, legal office at Bloemfontein; and whether he can state what the legal qualifications of this gentleman are to the post to which he has been appointed.
MR. J. POWELL-WILLIAMS (Birmingham, S.)The War Office has received no official information of such an appointment.