§ MR. MACFARLANEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If, seeing that the Fishery Treaties between our Colonies and the United States lead to frequent collisions between the fishermen, and are a source of difficulties to both Governments, Her Majesty's Government will take into consideration the desirability of withdrawing from all Treaties, leaving to each Country the exclusive possession of its own waters?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEThe provisions of the Treaty of Washington, under which the United States fishermen derive their privileges of fishing in British Colonial waters, cannot at the earliest expire until the 1st of July, 1885, 112 and then only in case notice of termination shall have been given two years previously by either party. Her Majesty's Government are not, therefore, at present in a position to consider the expediency of terminating that Treaty so far as it relates to fishery questions.