§ VISCOUNT MILTONsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If any negotiations are now going on between Great Britain and the United States of America in relation to the Water Boundary question; and, if so, whether he will lay the Correspondence upon the Table of the House?
Mr. OTWAY, in reply, said, there were no negotiations in progress on this subject at present. It had been agreed between Great Britain and the United States that the question of the water boundary should be referred to arbitration, as the House had been informed by the Papers which had been laid before Parliament. There was no further correspondence on the matter which Her Majesty's Government could now present.
§ VISCOUNT MILTONsaid, he now wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, What steps the Government mean to take with regard to the settlement of the Water Boundary question; and, if the Government do not intend at present to take any action in this matter, to state when it is the intention of the Government so to do?
MR. OTWAYsaid, it would be premature, indeed almost impossible, to state now what steps Her Majesty's Government might think right to take in this matter. Their course must necessarily depend on circumstances.