§ MR. LEVY (Leicestershire, Loughborough)To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will state upon what terms and under what conditions convicts are employed in the mines in South Africa; whether any payment is made for their services; if so, upon what basis and to whom made; whether they are under the inspection of a Government official when at work; and whether they are living in compounds with other natives or in compounds set apart for convicts.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton.) I have already given the information at my disposal on the subject of the convicts employed in the Transvaal mines in reply to Questions recently addressed to me † I have asked for full particulars. The employment of convicts in the Kimberley mines takes place under the provisions of an Act of the Cape Colony, No. 23, of 1888, Section 52.