§ MR. HENNIKER HEATON (Canterbury)To ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, in view of the fact that a Bill to give effect to the Brussels Sugar Convention has passed the Belgian Legislature, and has been read a second 1361 time in the German Reichsrath, he will at once introduce a Bill to give effect to the penal clause enabling the prohibition of bounty-fed sugar, or the levying of countervailing duties upon it, similar to that recently passed by the Indian Government.
(Answer.) It is the intention of the Government to introduce a Bill to enable them to give effect to the Sugar Convention. The penal clause in the Bill would not apply until the 1st of September, 1903, the date fixed for the coming into operation of the Convention.—(Treasury.)