§ MR. SCOTT MONTAGU (Hampshire, New Forest)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Her Majesty's Government is aware that Mr. Pott, for many years the Transvaal Consul at Delagoa Bay, has been actively engaged in assisting her Her Majesty's enemies, and whether at the same time Mr. Pott has been acting as the agent of the Castle Steamship 707 Company which conveys mails and troops to the Cape and subsidies from Her Majesty's Government; and whether steps have been taken to bring the importance of this to the notice of the Imperial authorities in South Africa.
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. BRODRICK,) Surrey, GuildfordThe Castle Line Company has made arrangements for relieving Mr. Pott of the agency, and he will no longer have anything to do with the company's business.
§ [No answer was given.]