§ * MR. STAVELEI HILLI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will lay upon the Table of the House the estimates which caused his Department to consider that the continued importation of Chinese coolies was justifiable, in view of the expense involved by stopping it.
§ * MR. CHURCHILLNo, Sir. I think it would be undesirable to lay estimates 289 of claims hypothetical upon a contingency which has been avoided even if they existed in a definite form. But they do not exist, and therefore the Secretary of State is not prepared to lay them.