§ MR. J. F. HOGAN (Tipperary, Mid)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether any formal investigation was ordered by the Foreign Office into the circumstances preceding and attending the substitution of a republic for the monarchy in Hawaii before official recognition was extended by the British Government to the republic; and, whether there is any precedent for withdrawing such recognition in a case where it has been granted without a full and adequate knowledge of the antecedent facts?
*THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir EDWARD GREY, Northumberland,22 Berwick) A formal investigation would not have been necessary or usual. The recognition was given upon the stability of the existing Government of Hawaii being ascertained. I am not aware of any such precedent as that referred to in the last part of the question.