§ MR. NORMANI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether His Majesty's Government has the intention of taking any steps towards the reconvention of the International Fisheries j Conference of Stockholm.
§ *THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AEEAIRS (Viscount CRANBORNE,) RochesterIt is not at present proposed that the conference should reassemble. As the House was informed on the 22nd ultimo in reply to the hon. Member for South Islington, His Majesty's Government had inquired when the Provisional Committee consisting of experts, the meeting of whom had been postponed, would be called together. His Majesty's Government have since been informed that the Provisional Committee will meet at some date in May not yet fixed.