THE EARL OF STAMFORDasked whether the noble Marquess the Secretary of State for the Colonies could give the House any information as to when the Report of Sir Robert Hamilton on the administration of Dominica would be made public?
§ * THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (The Marquess of RIPON)My Lords, the Report of Sir Robert Hamilton on the administration of Dominica is not yet, I believe, written—certainly it is not yet in the hands of the Colonial Office. I had the pleasure of seeing Sir Robert Hamilton the other day immediately on his return from Dominica, and he informed me he had not yet written his Report, but that he would do so as soon as he could; but as it was a matter of much importance it would take him some time before he would be able to go over the whole of the evidence again and furnish his Report to the Colonial Office. I doubt whether there is much chance of the Report being received by the Colonial Office before the end of the present Session.