§ MR. BOLTON (Derbyshire, N.E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the banking account of the Government of the Transvaal Colony is, to the exclusion of British banks, to be entrusted to the National Bank of the South African Republic, an institution founded with foreign capital; and whether, when the banking account for the Orange River Colony is settled, the claims of a British institution, which has been long established there, will receive due consideration.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. J. CHAMBERLAIN,) Birmingham, W.The communications with Lord Milner on the subject of the position to be held by these two banks are not yet complete.