HC Deb 30 June 1881 vol 262 c1657
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a Question of which he had given him private Notice, Whether, in the Revised Convention or arrangement about to be concluded between Servia and Austria, Servia, notwithstanding the most favoured nation clause in the Treaty between this country and Servia, would have to admit manufactured or partly manufactured iron and other articles from Austria at considerably lower duties than those at which it admits the products of this and other countries; and, whether before the Convention was signed by the Representatives of Austria and Servia it would be laid before the Chambers of Commerce?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

I shall feel obliged by the noble Lord giving Notice of the Question.

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

I suppose the Convention will not be signed before to-morrow?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

I cannot state at a moment's notice what is the exact position of matters at this moment. I have not seen any Papers relating to the Question for the last three days.

SIR H. DRUMMOND WOLFF

When does the hon. Baronet propose to lay on the Table the Treaty between Austria and Servia?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

It is in course of being printed.