§ CAPTAIN CRAIG (Down, E.)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if he can state how many Whites, Chinese Coolies, and Natives were enployed in the Transvaal mines when the present Government came into office and on 1st July last, respectively.
§ MR. J. H. LEWIS (Flintshire; for Colonel SEELY)At the end of December. 1905, there were 18,159 Whites, 93,831 Natives and 47,267 Chinese employed. On 30th June last there were 21,636 Chinese. The figures for Whites and Natives to that date have not vet been received. The average numbers for May were: Whites, 18,011; Natives, 145,007.