§ Mr. KINGasked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, whether he has any information as to the arbitration which is to decide the boundaries of Peru, Columbia, and Ecuador in respect of disputed districts of the tributaries of the Amazon; and when any date can be given for an award being given?
§ Sir E. GREYThe President of Columbia stated in a message to the Chambers in July last that themodus vivendi arrived at with Peru in 1911 should be observed pending a definite rectification of the frontier, but I have no information as to a tripartite arbitration.