§ MR. BUCHANAN (Perthshire, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for be Colonies whether any communications have been received from the Governor of the Orange River Colony with regard to the granting of representative or responsible government to that Colony at the same time as to the Transvaal, and to the state of opinion n the Orange River Colony on the subject; and will such communication be laid upon the Table.
§ MR. LYTTELTONThe Governor has informed me that a resolution in favour of responsible government was passed at a Congress held at Brandfort it the beginning of December, but the deputation which presented the resolutions passed at the Conference to the Lieutenant-Governor did not refer to this particular resolution, which was not included among those he was desired to forward. I have also received an account of a meeting at which a resolution in favour of responsible government was passed at Vrede in February. I will include these resolutions among the next Papers.