§ MR. ALDEN (Middlesex, Tottenham)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will state the approximate cost of suppressing the native rising in Natal; and whether any portion whatever of that cost will be defrayed out of Imperial funds.
§ MR. CHURCHILLThe approximate cost is £700,000, all of which will be borne by Natal, not by Imperial, funds.
§ MR. HAROLD COXasked if this included the cost of the regiment at Pieter-maritzburg.
§ MR. CHURCHILLsaid he understood the extra cost was, but he could not say that the ordinary annual cost was or ought to be charged against South Africa.