§ MR. BROTHERTON (Wakefield)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if he will lay upon the Table the despatch instructing the Earl of Selborne with regard to the repatriation of Chinese coolies, and state also on what date was this despatch transmitted.
§ THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. CHURCHILL,) Manchester, N.W.Correspondence on this subject has been and is being conducted by telegraph, and the question has not yet reached the stage in which a final despatch can be written.