§ MR. CHANNING (Northampton, E.)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether his attention has been called to the report in The Times of Tuesday, 9th August, that the new Hawaiian Ministry refuse to recognize as valid the loan of £2,000,000 recently contracted by Mr. Gibson's Ministry, and that Her Majesty's Consul at Honolulu has, inconsequence, threatened that he will ask for a naval force to compel the new Ministry to assume the debts of their predecessors; whether this report is substantially correct; and, whether Her Majesty's Government contemplate any action of the kind indicated in this report?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)Her Majesty's Government have no knowledge of such events. I observe that the Hawaiian Consul General, in a letter to The Times yesterday, has contradicted the report which had appeared in that newspaper.