§ Mr. ESSEXasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will state the number of Chinese labourers remaining in the Transvaal on the 30th April last; and whether a date has yet been fixed for the departure of all such labourers as now remain?
§ Colonel SEELYThe number of Chinese remaining on the 30th of April was 7,734, and the last is due to return in January, 1910.