§ MR. BUCHANAN (Perthshire, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Transvaal Government in December, 1901, concluded a convention with the Portugese authorities, by which, as is alleged by the Cape and Natal Governments, a preference is given to goods entering the Transvaal by way of Delagoa Bay, as compared with goods entering by way of the Cape or Natal; and, if so, whether he will lay upon the Table of the House a copy of the convention and the communications from the Cape and Natal Governments on the subject.
§ MR. LYTTELTONI will lay the agreement concluded on 18th December, 1901, but I am not prepared at present to lay the correspondence, which is not complete.