§ MR. MOONTo ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can 678 indicate the date when he expects to be able to lay upon the Table of the House, in its final form, the Ordinance relating to Chinese labour in the Transvaal, and when he expects to be able to do the same with regard to the regulations thereunder, as settled in consultation with the representatives of the Chinese Government.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton.) The text of the Ordinance in its final form is in Cd. 1941. The Ordinance, as published in the Gazette with Lord Milner's assent appended, will be hi i with the regulations shortly, but I cannot fix a date, as the negotiations with the Chinese Government are not yet wholly concluded.