§ MR. WILLIAM REDMOND (Clare, E.)To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has any objection to have printed and circulated amongst Members the communications which passed between the Governments of Australia and New Zealand and the Colonial Office in reference to Chinese labour in South Africa.
§ * MR. LYTTELTONThere has been no communications direct to the Colonial Office beyond that from the Government of New Zealand, published at p. 231 and the reply thereto at p. 327 of Cd. 1895. The telegrams which passed between the Premier of New Zealand and the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Transvaal Government will be published in the next Parliamentary Paper.
In reply to a Question by Mr. FLYNN (Cork, N.), Mr. LYTTELTON said that so far as he was aware the protests only came from Australia, New Zealand, and Cape Colony. The other self-governing Colonies, so far from protesting, replied that the matter was one for the Transvaal to settle for itself.