EARL CARRINOTONMy Lords, I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies when he will be able to present the promised Blue-books containing the reports with regard to the alleged ill-treatment and scarcity of native labourers in the Transvaal, referred to in the Colonial Secretary's speech in the Commons on Thursday, 5th May.
THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STAT E FOR THE COLONIES (The Duke of MAKL-BOROUGH)My Lords, the Secretary of State promised in the House of Commons last week that these Papers should be published as speedily as possible. The necessary formalities have already been gone through, the Papers are at the present, time in the printer's hands, and we hope to be able to lay them before your Lordships' House in the latter part of this week.