§ MR. HOGAN (Tipperary, Mid.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, having regard to the reports that large areas of the best land in the New Hebrides have been either claimed or acquired by French Trading Companies, he will communicate with the Admiral in command on the Australian Station with a view to obtaining the latest official information as to the extent and character of the land in the New Hebrides under French and British ownership respectively?
§ SIR E. GREYA careful Report on this point was made less than two years 1789 ago, and, in view of the fact that Treaty relations as regards the New Hebrides remain undisturbed, it is not thought necessary to have another special inquiry.