§ MR. PIRIE (Aberdeen, N.)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether the Government are now prepared to make a statement in reply to the influential deputation from the great fishing centres of the United Kingdom which waited upon Lord Salisbury on the 8th inst., and to whom the Prime Minister could not reply at the time, owing to the absence of the Secretary for Scotland from the interview, as to their intended action regarding the continued presence of foreign trawlers in the protected waters of the Moray Firth, whereby British fishing interests, both trawling and line, are seriously jeopardised, and the experiment for which those waters were closed rendered abortive?
§ THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. GRAHAM MURRAY,) ButeshireThe Secretary for Scotland is not prepared to accept the assumptions which are contained in the Question. I have no statement to make.
§ MR. GRAHAM MURRAYI have no statement to make.