§ SIR JOHN LENG (Dundee)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether he can now state what communications have passed between him and the Minister for Agriculture in Canada under the remit of the Colonial Conference relative to the law under which healthy live cattle imported into this country from Canada are required to be slaughtered at the port of landing; and if he will lay the correspondence, if any, upon the Table of the House.
§ MR. HANBURYAt an interview with the Canadian representative I undertook to ascertain whether it would be possible, without materially increasing the risk of importing disease, to extend the period of ten days within which cattle arriving at the ports must be slaughtered. This inquiry has now been completed, and I am about to communicate the result to the Canadian authorities. Until the correspondence is complete, it would be premature to publish any part of it.