§ 3. Sir J. D. REESasked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether he will instruct the British Minister in China to use his good offices on behalf of the British share and debenture holders in the Anglo-French Investment Company, the direction of which is now passing into new, and into other than British, hands?
§ Sir E. GREYI have no information on the matter beyond what has appeared in the Press, and it does not appear from that to be a case in which His Majesty's Minister could intervene.