§ MR. HENNIKER HEATON (Canterbury)To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether a convention has been concluded with the Sultan of Johore for the construction by the Federated Malay States of the last section of the Malay Peninsula private line of railway from a point on the main land opposite Penang to a point opposite Singapore; and, if not, whether an arrangement, described by Sir Frank Swettenham, of such vital importance to the Straits Settlements and the Protected Malay States, will be much longer delayed.
1474 (Answered by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton.) A convention providing for the construction by the Federated Malay States of a railway through Johore in continuation of the main trunk line through those States was signed on the 11th instant.