§ SIR THOMAS DEWARI beg to ask the Postmaster-General, having regard to the fact that the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Budget Speech in 1897 stated that the Government desired to reduce the rate of postage from this country to the Continent from 2½d. to 2d. the half-ounce, and that efforts to secure the assent of the Postal Union to the proposed reduction have hitherto failed, will arrangements be made to again bring the point forward at the next meeting of the Postal Union.
§ THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,) Worcestershire, E.I do not propose to initiate any discussion on this point at the next Postal Union Congress.