§ MR. ASHLEY (Lancashire, Blackpool)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will state when the despatches from the Governor of the Windwards, recommending that the Secretary of State should assent to a loan from the Eruption Fund for the purpose of reopening the Carib Canal, will be laid upon the Table.
§ COLONEL SEELYIt is not proposed to lay the despatches. The chief despatches recommending a loan are marked "Confidential," except one, and that deals with the business and family affairs of private individuals, and could not properly be published.
§ MR. MITCHELL-THOMSON (Lanarkshire, N. W.)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will lay upon the Table a copy of the Memorandum from the Governor of the Windwards with regard to the Carib Canal question which was read by the Administrator of St. Vincent at the meeting of the Legislative Council on 30th May.
§ COLONEL SEELYThe Secretary of State has just received a copy of the Memorandum referred to. He does not consider it necessary to lay it.