§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, in recommending Lord Selborne to the Crown for the appointment of High Commissioner of South Africa, he had regard to the circumstance of Lord Selborne having filled the office of Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1895 till 1900, the period of the Jameson Raid, and of friction between the Colonial Office and the South African Republic, and to the effects calculated to be produced by such an appointment in South Africa.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe only circumstance which I took into account in recommending Lord Selborne for the office he is about to take up was his fitness for the post.