§ MR. WATT (Glasgow, Camlachie)asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies, If he is now in a position to give the House any information with reference to the Boundary Question between British Guiana and Venezuela?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)The Government of Venezuela having broken off diplomatic relations with Her Majesty's Government, negotiations for the settlement of the Boundary Question are at present interrupted. Pending a settlement of 1888 the question, the territory within the boundary line proposed by Sir R. Schomberg will be treated by the Government of British Guiana as belonging to the Colony. The claim of the Colony to a more extended frontier is not withdrawn; but, for the present, remains in abeyance.