HC Deb 27 March 1882 vol 268 c30
MR. W. H. SMITH

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If he is now able to state the result of the negotiations with the Porte for the retrocession of the hundred pico of free landing space in the harbour of Smyrna, which were reserved to the commercial community of that port in the original concession to the Smyrna Quay Company; and when the papers which have been promised on the subject will be laid upon the Table?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

The negotiations with the Porte on the subject of the free landing space in the harbour of Smyrna are not yet concluded; but Papers will be presented to Parliament in the course of the present week, and distributed early next week.