§ MR. ALEXANDER CROSSI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury when 602 the agreement with the Cunard Company will be placed upon the Table; and when the House will have an opportunity of considering its terms and policy.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI am not yet in a position to say when the agreement with the Cunard Company will be ready for presentation. It involves a great many details, and the necessary alterations in the Company's articles of association would require the sanction of the shareholders before the agreement is finally approved.
MR. GIBSON BOWLESDoes that answer apply to the agreement with the Atlantic Steam Trust, or can that he laid at an earlier date?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI am not sure that it would be expedient to lay one without the other. They are very closely bound together.