§ COLONEL HILL (Bristol, S.)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether Her Majesty's Government have received any information as to the reported continuance for another year of the large bounties given by the Russian Government on the export of sugar; and, whether, considering the injury which the bounty system causes to British home and colonial industries, Her Majesty's Government will use their best endeavours to obtain the assembling of an International Conference for the general abolition of bounties at the earliest possible moment?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (SIR JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)Her Majesty's Government have received no information of the nature indicated in the first paragraph of the Question. The question as to the assembling of an International Conference is under the consideration of Her Majesty's Government.