§ COMMANDER BETHELLI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if any arrangement has been come to with France with reference to the western basin of the Upper Nile?
§ *SIR E. GREYNo arrangement has been arrived at with reference to the western basin of the Upper Nile. The only arrangement come to is that regarding the frontier of the colony of Sierra Leone, which is about to be laid.
§ COMMANDER BETHELLAre any negotiations pending?
§ *SIR E. GREYNegotiations were begun last year. They have not been broken off', though they are not actually progressing at the present moment.