§ Sir J. PENNEFATHERasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what replies, if any, have been received to a despatch forwarded by His Majesty's Government through the British Residency at Cairo to the Sudan Government, asking if they can obtain an undertaking from the Sudan Plantation Syndicate, Limited, that all cotton produced in the Gezireh district should be offered for sale in the first instance in Great Britain; and also as to the possibility of fixing a maximum price for Sudan cotton?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI propose to lay the Papers relating to this question in the near future.