§ SIR CHARLES DILKEI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if the negotiation with France as to Newfoundland has reached a stage at which any statement can properly be made with regard to it?
MR. CURZONHer Majesty's Government have recently agreed with the French Government to renew, during the approaching season, the modus vivendi of 1890, relating to the lobster fisheries on the Treaty coast of Newfoundland. No negotiations are at present proceeding in regard to the general question of the French fishery rights.