HC Deb 01 March 1898 vol 54 cc275-6
MR. HOGAN

I beg to ask the under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received a reply to the remonstrance addressed to the French Government against the sale of spirits and firearms to the natives of the New Hebrides by French traders; and whether French traders, equally with British traders, will be debarred for the future from engaging in this traffic?

MR. CURZON

NO answer has yet been received to the representations addressed to the French Government on the subject. Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris will be again instructed to call attention to the matter.