§ MR. JAMES O'KELLY (Roscommon, N.)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the Vryheid and Utrecht districts and a portion of the Wakkerstroom district of the Transvaal are to be transferred to the Colony of Natal; and whether, before any partition of the Transvaal territory or any incorporation of it in any Colony is permitted to be carried out, the decision of this House will be taken upon the matter.
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR,) Manchester, E.The hon. Gentleman is perfectly right. The districts to which he refers are to be transferred as he suggests in his Question; but we do not propose to ask the House of Commons to come to any formal decision on the subject.