§ MR. HOGANI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the dual control of the New Hebrides by Great Britain and France will shortly expire by effluxion of time; and, whether it is proposed to continue this system; and, if so, will care be taken in any fresh agreement to provide that French traders, equally with English traders will be debarred from selling spirits and fire-arms to the natives of the New Hebrides?
MR. CURZONThe agreement between the British and French Governments relative to the New Hebrides has no fixed time for expiry, and there is no intention on the part of Her Majesty's Government to discontinue it.