§ MR. BUCHANAN (Perthshire, E.)To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether there has been any correspondence between the Colonial Office and the High Commissioner, or between the Colonial Office and the guarantors, with regard to the issue of the Transvaal War Contribution Loan since January, 1904; and what has been the purport of such correspondence.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton.) There has been no correspondence between the Colonial Office and the guarantors since January, 1904, excepting a reply dated February 10th, 1904, to their letter of 6th January, published at page 181 of Cd. 1895, stating that the further consideration of the arrangements for the issue of the first instalment must be postponed for the present. I am not prepared to state the purport of any correspondence on this subject between the Colonial Office and Lord Milner, these communications having been of a strictly confidential nature.