§ MR. MACKARNESSI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will state the date on which the last shipload of Chinese labourers, repatriated from the Rand, left South Africa, and the date on which the next shipload is intended to leave.
§ COLONEL SEELYThe last shipload left in October, and I presume that the next will leave or has left during this month. The exact dates are not reported to the Colonial Office, but the despatch of the vessels must depend on the date of termination of the contracts. No Chinese were imported in November 1905.