§ MR. M'KENNAI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can state what is the existing boundary between the territory claimed by the Negus and the British Soudan and British East Africa; and whether any proposals have been made to confine the British Soudan on the side of Abyssinia to the watershed of the Nile.
§ * THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. BRODRICK,) Surrey, GuildfordThe question of the Abyssinian boundaries is still the subject of negotiations between King Menelek and Her Majesty's Agent at Adis Ababa, and I am not in a position to make any statement with regard to them at the present moment.