§ MR. BLACKI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will undertake not to say or do anything gratuitously which might prejudice the claim of the late Transvaal Government against the Chartered Company being recovered and applied in liquidation of the debts of the Transvaal Government when a change in His Majesty's Advisers takes place.
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAINI am not aware of anything which I can say or do, either gratuitously or otherwise, which would interfere with the action of any succeeding Government in this matter.
§ MR. ALFRED DAVIES (Carmarthen Boroughs)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will give facilities for the examination at the Colonial Office of all Papers connected with the Jameson Raid bearing upon the claim of the late Transvaal Government, in view of the probability of a tender being made, as suggested, for any rights the British Government may have against the Chartered Company.
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAINAll the material Papers on this subject have been published, and will be found in the Parliamentary Paper, C 9,343.
§ MR. ALFRED DAVIESWill the right hon. Gentleman give me access to the necessary special Papers in order that I may not buy a pig in a poke?
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAINI do not know what would be necessary for the hon. Member.