§ SIR CHARLES DILKEI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, before the 15th September, 1895, Her Majesty's Ambassador in Paris was informed by the French Foreign Minister that the French Government could not entertain a claim on behalf of the widows and children of the British officers slain at Waima; and whether, under those circumstances, the French Government have subsequently accepted negotiation on the subject?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURYI am informed that there is no trace, either in the Foreign Office or in Her Majesty's Embassy at Paris, of any such communication as that alluded to in the Question; nor have Her Majesty's Government information that any such communication has been made.