§ MR. GIBBSI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies when the Letters Patent will be issued; and when the new Transvaal Constitution will come into effect.
§ MR. CHURCHILLNo precise date can yet be fixed for the issue of the Letters Patent, nor a date when the new Constitution will come into effect. Everything will be done to expedite the matter, and an Order in Council has been passed for preparing the list of voters by adding the fresh voters who will become entitled under manhood franchise. I should expect that the elections will be held not later than the beginning of next year.
§ SIR HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)asked whether the Letters Patent would contain any restriction on the importation of munitions of war into the Transvaal?
§ MR. CHURCHILLNo, Sir. I do not think there will be any departure from the ordinary practice in the case of instruments of this character.
§ MR. LYTTELTON (St. George's, Hanover Square)When will further Papers on this subject be laid?
§ MR. CHURCHILLreplied that they would be out shortly. They were being gone through.