§ MR. KEIR HARDIEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, with a view to removing the friction which has arisen between the Governments of this country and Australia, and which has led to a rupture of postal relations, he will suggest to the parties concerned that in future the owners of vessels carrying the mails should be required to pay the same rates of wages to coolies and other coloured seamen as would be paid to white men engaged in doing the same class of work.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN (for Mr. J. CHAMBERLAIN)No, Sir, I am not prepared to make such a suggestion.