CAPTAIN CRAIGI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies what are the present prescribed conditions agreed to by the French Government in relation to adult and child labour, male and female, in the New Hebrides.
§ THE UNDER-SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. CHURCHILL,) Manchester, N. W.The instructions of the French Government to the French High Commissioner on the subject of native labour in the New Hebrides are contained in the third enclosure to M. Geoffray's note of 29th August last, which appears in the Parliamentary Paper being published to-day.