§ Sir CLEMENT KINLOCH-COOKEasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention had been called to the appointment of a gentleman from Holland as head of the Agricultural College at Bloemfontein; whether there was any precedent for appointing a foreigner to a position of this kind in a British Colony; and whether the Government agreed with the member of the Legislative Council, Orange River State, who inferred that the gentleman in question was selected because he possessed the redeeming merit of being a Hollander, and therefore not liable to the suspicion of inculcating any unwholesome or Imperial sentiments?
§ Colonel SEELYThe Secretary of State has no information on the subject, and would not in any case wish to express an opinion on a local appointment made by the responsible Government of the Colony.