HC Deb 04 August 1887 vol 318 cc1154-5
MR. O. V. MORGAN (Battersea)

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he can state when the Japanese Treaty is likely to be concluded?

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)

The Conference which has been sitting at Tokio for the revision of the Treaties between Japan and Foreign Powers has been postponed by the Japanese Government sine die. Her Majesty's Minister in Japan is coming home, and will confer with Her Majesty's Government on the subject.