§ MR. HENNIKER HEATON (Canterbury)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the remuneration to the jurists on the Delagoa Bay Arbitration amounts to £5,000 a year; whether they have been sitting for about nine years; and whether, in answer to questions put to Ministers in 1894, 1896, and 1898* by the hon. Member for Canterbury, it was stated that there was good reason for believing that the award would not be much longer delayed, or that the final award was expected in the autumn of 1898; and whether the information to this effect given in the House of Commons on the 28th March, 1898, to the hon. Member for Canterbury, was supplied to Her Majesty's Government by the President of the Berne Tribunal.
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. BRODRICK,): Surrey, GuildfordNo sum has been named for the remuneration of the arbitrators. The answer to the second paragraph is in the affirmative. Her Majesty's Minister has not been in communication with the President of the Berne Tribunal. The information given to the House was obtained from other sources.