has practically concluded its sittings. Tt has failed to induce Mr. sley to give up the telegrams which he has been withholding by instructions of Mr. Rhodas 5 and it has decided to report both Mx. Rhodes and Mr. Hawksley ta the House of Commons. But it is dificult to know what the House of Commons can do under the circumstances. Mr. Chamberlain, who has seen the telegrams, declares that there is nothing particular in them beyond what already known; but the natural retort is to ask why if that is so Mr. Rhodes should object to their production. Mr. Chamberlain has ones more denied in the most comphatic way that either he or the Colonial Office had any foreknowledge of the Raid hut Mr. W. 'T. Stead," who professes to have seen the telegrams, sticks resolutely to his guns. He still pronounces Mr. Chamberlain guilty; but he does not produce his evidence. He declares that there has been a conspiracy on the part of the witnesses, who have been examined by the Committee, to shield Mr. Chamberlain. Mr. Stead's notre does not, however, carry much weight nowadays.
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