§ SIR GILBERT PARKERI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will state whether any resolutions from any Colonial Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce, Manufacturers' Association, or Agricultural Society, or from any Colonial Legislative Assembly, against preferential duties has been received at the Colonial Office; also whether any resolutions from Colonial Legislatures in favour of preferential relations between the Colonies and England were received by the Government prior to 1903, if so, from what country, who was the Colonial Minister at the time, and what reply was made by him to such resolution or resolutions; also, will he state whether any resolution or resolutions in favour of preferential relations have been passed by any Canadian Legislature or Legislatures during the years 1903 and 1904.
§ *MR. LYTTELTONSo far as can be traced in the books of the Colonial Office no resolution against preferential duties has been received in recent years, nor any resolution of a Colonial Legislature 1398 in favour of preferential relations, prior to 1903. If such resolutions have been passed by any Colonial or Provincial Legislature, they do not appear to have been communicated to His Majesty's Government.