§ MR. C. MCARTHUR (Liverpool, Exchange)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any arrangement has yet been arrived at between Her Majesty's Government and the Royal Niger Company with reference to the territories now administered by the latter?
MR. CURZONCommunications have been passing between Her Majesty's Government and the Royal Niger Company with a view to the assumption by the former of the administration hitherto carried on by the latter. But I am not at present able to enter into any details on the subject.