§ * SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that the greater part of Swaziland is the subject of real or pretended concessions, said to have been granted by King Umbandine, and that the effect of such concessions is both to exclude native rights and also to shut out traders, even though as a fact they have been there from earlier dates, unless they choose to make payments at the will of the alleged concessionary companies; and, seeing that these concessions have long been the subject of consideration by the Swaziland Administration at Johannesburg and by the Department of Native Affairs of the Transvaal Colony, whether he will take steps to cause some equitable settlement to be at once arrived at.
§ * THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. LYTTELTON,) Warwick and LeamingtonThe matter, 728 which is one of unusual complexity, is receiving my earnest attention, and I hope that it will be possible to arrive at a settlement at no distant date.